Question 320 · LEK · Surgical treatment
Procedures used for treating cancer patients are often only targeted at improving their quality of life. Palliative procedures do not include:
- A. placement of a prosthesis in the bile ducts.
- B. sigmoidostomy in patients with gastrointestinal obstruction due to non-resectable rectal cancer.
- C. liver resection associated with an isolated colorectal cancer metastasis.
- D. percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.
- E. celiac plexus neurolysis.
Hint
Distinguish procedures that only relieve symptoms from those performed with curative intent.
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