staging laparotomy

staging laparotomy
laparotomy for pathologic staging of subdiaphragmatic Hodgkin disease. It always includes splenectomy, wedge and deep needle biopsies of liver lobes, and biopsies of multiple lymph nodes, and it may be accompanied by appendectomy and ovariopexy.

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