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What does exenteration mean?

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Noun
  1. (surgery) The surgical removal of all the contents of a body cavity such as the pelvis or the orbit.
  2. (obsolete) The process or fact of removing the entrails; evisceration.
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In every case the primary surgical aim was exenteration of retraction pocket disease with or without cholesteatoma.
Ureteroarterial fistulae in exenteration patients with indwelling ureteral stents.
In the presence of rectovaginal or vesicovaginal fistula or lack of response to radiation therapy and where no regional or distant disease is present, pelvic exenteration may be an option.
Enucleation or exenteration was performed after two cycles of chemotherapy.
The most aggressive operation of all was probably the pelvic exenteration, devised by the New York gynecologist Alexander Brunschwig.
A surgical approach might include radical vulvectomy and inguinal node dissection with a posterior, anterior, or total pelvic exenteration.

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