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glossectomy [glɒˈsɛktəmɪ] n pl -mies (Medicine / Surgery) surgical removal of all or part of the tongue How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| His medical history was significant for squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the tongue 7 years earlier; the SCC had been treated with a total glossectomy, epiglottidectomy, and bilateral neck dissections followed by chemotherapy and radiation. 14) We chose not to operate on our patient because there is no consensus in the literature that surgery would definitively improve his quality of life and because the morbidity of a glossectomy in this patient would have been substantial. Ten years earlier, he had undergone a right partial glossectomy and segmental mandibulectomy for squamous cell carcinoma of the right tongue base, followed by 50 Gy of radiation delivered over 33 sessions. |
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