Surgical ‘damage control’ treatment of a large retroperitoneal liposarcoma encasing a horseshoe kidney
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Damage control is a surgical strategy for severely compromised trauma patients based on speed control of life-threatening injuries that aims to rapidly resuscitate patients in an intensive care unit (ICU). We report on the use of such therapeutic strategy in a patient affected by a retroperitoneal sarcoma concomitant to a horseshoe kidney, a relatively rare anatomical malformation.
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دوره 2 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2008