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What does curettage mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) The removal of unwanted tissue from a body cavity using a curette.
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West Surrey has cut back on the number of vasectomies, circumcisions, hysterectomies, and dilation and curettage.
Treatment for menorrhagia may include hormone therapy, endometrial curettage, endometrial ablation, or hysterectomy.
Numerous methods of treatment are effective, but the most commonly used are cryosurgery, curettage, and excision.
Smaller tumors may be treated with liquid nitrogen cryosurgery, electrodessication, and curettage.
Commonly used treatments include excisional surgery, Mohs' surgery, radiation therapy, cryosurgery, curettage and electrodesiccation.
Endometrial curettage may be used as a second-line treatment if pharmacological efforts have been ineffective.

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