How to Use resection in a Sentence

resection

noun
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  • However, due to its placement in the left frontal lobe of my brain, the resection had left me unable to speak.
    — Danielle Soviero, Bon Appétit, 30 June 2022
  • Part of a transurethral resection involves inserting a scope — a tube with a camera at the end — through the urethra.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The removal of the rib — officially known as a first rib resection — is meant to alleviate stress on the nerve and solve discomfort in the arm.
    — Rustin Dodd, kansascity, 7 Aug. 2017
  • After the surgery resection, there is a 2% recurrence rate.
    — Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com, 14 July 2021
  • By some miracle, the MRI images of my tumor resection site have been stable, and there's been no regrowth.
    — Health.com, 31 July 2019
  • But then he got stuck doing a liver resection and didn’t get out of the operating room until three or four hours after their date was supposed to happen.
    — Nina Reyes, New York Times, 9 June 2018
  • Before the abdominoperineal resection of the patient with carotenemia, Gorski believed the carrot juice fraud had a right to ply his worthless treatments.
    — Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • To widen this channel and improve flow, a surgical procedure called transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is commonly carried out on older men.
    — Gavin Francis, The New York Review of Books, 10 Feb. 2022
  • At one point, Wilson had 14 tumors removed from his liver in a procedure called a resection of the liver, but not all of the tumors found could be removed because of their location.
    — Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com, 11 June 2021
  • The toddler also had a stomach defect repaired and a small bowel resection, which resulted in close to 3 feet of his small intestines getting removed, the fundraiser stated.
    — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2021
  • In the trial, the patients underwent surgery for resection, or removal, of their tumors and had an ultrasound device implanted.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 May 2023
  • However, with modern medicine and a creative doctor, McGrath was able to not only survive the tumor resection but, through a series of operations, his wound was closed.
    — Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2017
  • Giulianotti was the first surgeon to perform more than a dozen robotic procedures, ranging from kidney transplants to lung resections.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The Brewers categorized the procedure – which occurred Nov. 5 – as pectoralis minor release surgery and first rib resection surgery.
    — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The elder Smarr underwent a resection of his colon in 2016, having first assisted his surgeon by developing a high-resolution map of the region.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The same incision had been used to perform a liver resection and a cholecystectomy (removal of the gall bladder), following the initial procedure.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 10 June 2020
  • This surgical technique, known as resection of cavity shave margins, has been shown to reduce the rate of cancerous margins of a breast cancer surgical specimen and the need for repeat surgery by half in women undergoing breast conserving surgery.
    — Alix Boyle, courant.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Later that year, 2-year-old Ailee Jong died on the operating table after John Muir moved forward with her complicated liver surgery despite warnings from staff members that the unit wasn’t prepared to perform its first-ever pediatric liver resection.
    — Cynthia Dizikes, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Surgery Unless the cancer is clearly too advanced for surgery, most people will undergo exploratory surgery to determine if surgical resection (removal) is possible.
    — Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The treatment relies heavily on a procedure called surgical resection.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Nov. 2022
  • In the surgical procedure known as transurethral resection, 70% to 80% of men generally get a condition called retrograde ejaculation, also called dry orgasm, says Dr. McVary.
    — Laura Johannes, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2017
  • For decades, the diagnosis of DCIS has routinely led to surgery–a mastectomy or a lumpectomy (a partial breast resection) that’s often combined with radiation treatment and possibly, a five-year course of hormone medication.
    — Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Argon beam coagulators are commonly used during such operations to stop blood flow and resection organs.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 14 Dec. 2017
  • In Altorki’s trial, those sub-lobar resections included both segmentectomies — the operation that Bharat performs — and another sub-lobar surgery known as a wedge resection.
    — Angus Chen, STAT, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The treatment usually consists of maximal safe resection followed by total brain and spine radiation, often with proton therapy if available, with extra radiation to the tumor site.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The Kennedy assassination occurred early in Dr. McClelland’s career as a general surgeon; his specialty was liver resections.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Treatments include surgical resection (i.e. having as much of the brain tumor removed as possible via a roughly half-day surgical procedure), chemotherapy, and radiotherapy.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 22 July 2017
  • There is little data on how prevalent the operation was; however, surgery did become a mainstay of tuberculosis treatment from either plombage, lung deflation (known as pneumothorax), or simply surgical resection of a diseased lobe.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2015
  • In 1953 Henry Molaison underwent bilateral hippocampal resection surgery to reduce extreme, life-disrupting epileptic seizures.
    — Matthew Schafer, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2020
  • He’s profiled fibropapillomatosis tumor tissue that’s been surgically removed by laser resection as part of rehabilitation.
    — Jessica Alice Farrell, Smithsonian, 11 July 2018

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