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A Surgeon's Blog: The Microcosm
The following is a blog posting from Jeffry Parks MD, a general surgeon from Cleveland, OH.  It's a case about an...
End-of-life care in a COPD patient awaiting lung transplantation: a case report BMC Palliative Care
ABSTRACT:  COPD is nowadays the main indication for lung transplantation. In appropriately selected patients with end...
Palliative surgery for cancer pain Western Journal Medicine
This article from the Western Journal of Medicine discusses palliative surgery as a way to manage pain in cancer patients....
Radical palliative surgery: new limits to pursue Pediatric Surgery International
This article provides a detailed case study of a 13 year old girl with a massive desmoid tumor.  She has definitive...