- Halsted mastectomy (operation) suture
- Hal·sted mastectomy (operation), suture (halґsted) [William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon, 1852–1922] see under suture and see radical mastectomy, under mastectomy.
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Halsted mastectomy (operation) suture
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