Axillary Dissection
Key Facts
Abbreviation
AD
Pronunciation
/ækˈsɪləri daɪˈsekʃən/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine
Examples in Context
- Methods We randomly assigned women with breast cancer to sentinel-lymph-node biopsy plus axillary dissection or sentinel-lymph-node biopsy alone.
- It is important to recognize that axillary dissection is valuable both in planning therapy and in staging cancer.
- The fact that axillary dissection is not needed in women who have positive sentinel nodes is " counterintuitive and hard to accept," because it means not removing all the cancer, said Armando E.
- Long-Term Effects of Partial Axillary Dissection(AD) in Modified Radical Mastectomy of Breast Cancer
- All of them were performed sentinel lymph nodes biopsy before axillary dissection.
Other meanings of AD
Active Directory
Internet
AMD Corporation
Gov
Advertisement
Business
Acetabular Depth
Medical
Active Disease
Medical
Acute Dermatomyositis
Medical
Acute Diarrhoea
Medical
Acute Dissection
Medical
Acute Dysentery
Medical
addict
Medical