curettage
Sign in to saveCurettage ( or ), in medical procedures, is the use of a curette (French, meaning "scoop") to remove tissue by scraping or scooping.
Key facts
- Medical intervention.Name
- Curettage
- Medical intervention.Image
- Currette.png
- Medical intervention.Caption
- Illustration from a United States patent for an ornate curette (Michelson, 1988)
- Medical intervention.ICD9
- 69.0
- Medical intervention.MeshID
- D003475
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Research
19,404 papers- Curettage, electrosurgery and skin cancer.The Australasian journal of dermatology · 2000
- Dilatation and curettage.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 1989
- A guide to curettage and cautery in the management of skin lesions.Australian journal of general practice · 2021
- Extended curettage for tumour-induced osteomalacia in the bone.Japanese journal of clinical oncology · 2024
- The impact of curettage technique on local control in giant cell tumour of bone.International orthopaedics · 2021
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- medical procedure
- Image
- Uterine Curette 03.jpg
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- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Curettage ( or ), in medical procedures, is the use of a curette (French, meaning "scoop") to remove tissue by scraping or scooping.
Curettages are also a method of abortion. It has been replaced by vacuum aspiration over the last decade.
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