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abdominoperineal resection

a surgical cancer treatment involving resection of the lower sigmoid colon, rectum, anus, and surrounding skin and formation of a sigmoid colostomy; performed as a synchronous or sequential transabdominal and perineal procedure.


 

 

 

 

 

 


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