Surgical extirpation at Weyland-Yutani Health System
By Dr. Marcus Farah, DO · · General Surgery
Patients often ask us about surgical extirpation. Here is what our General Surgery clinicians want you to know.
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Topic: surgical extirpation. Taking or cutting out solid matter from a body part. The solid matter contained in the definition may be an abnormal byproduct of a biological function or a foreign body. It may be embedded in a body part, or in the lumen of a tubular body part. The solid matter may or may not have been previously broken into pieces.
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