Unraveling the Role of Palliative Surgery in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic

Palliative surgery forms an important pillar of palliative treatment to provide holistic care to cancer patients in the form of providing relief from pain, local control of disease, hemorrhage, and for the purpose of rehabilitation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we report the successful management o...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Raghav, Karthik, AR, Rustagi, Kanika, Gupta, Nishkarsh, Bhoriwal, Sandeep, Kumar, Vinod, Garg, Rakesh, Mishra, Seema
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7535011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33088108
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_158_20
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Sumario:Palliative surgery forms an important pillar of palliative treatment to provide holistic care to cancer patients in the form of providing relief from pain, local control of disease, hemorrhage, and for the purpose of rehabilitation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we report the successful management of two cases of colorectal cancer which came under the category of high priority and underwent palliative surgery to provide relief from pain.

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