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  2. Surgical treatment of ingrown toenails - Wikipedia

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    Some use "lateral onychoplasty," or "wedge resection," as the method of choice for ingrown toenails. A wide wedge resection, with a total cleaning (removal) of nail matrix, has a nearly 100% success rate. [citation needed] Some physicians will not perform a complete nail avulsion (removal) except under extreme circumstances. In most cases ...

  3. Ingrown nail - Wikipedia

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    The surgical approach is the removal of the offending part of the nail plate known as a wedge resection. [10] If the ingrown toenail recurs despite this treatment, destruction of the sides of the nail with chemicals or excision is done; this is known as a matrixectomy. [ 10 ]

  4. Wedge resection - Wikipedia

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    Wedge resection is a surgical procedure to remove a triangle-shaped slice of tissue. It may be used to remove a tumor or some other type of tissue that requires removal and typically includes a small amount of normal tissue around it. It is easy to repair, does not greatly distort the shape of the underlying organ and leaves just a single ...

  5. Avulsion injury - Wikipedia

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    In medicine, an avulsion is an injury in which a body structure is torn off by either trauma or surgery (from the Latin avellere, meaning "to tear off"). [1] The term most commonly refers to a surface trauma where all layers of the skin have been torn away, exposing the underlying structures (i.e., subcutaneous tissue , muscle , tendons , or ...

  6. Avulsion fracture - Wikipedia

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    An avulsion fracture is a bone fracture which occurs when a fragment of bone tears away from the main mass of bone as a result of physical trauma. This can occur at the ligament by the application of forces external to the body (such as a fall or pull) or at the tendon by a muscular contraction that is stronger than the forces holding the bone ...

  7. Lung surgery - Wikipedia

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    A wedge resection is the non-anatomic removal of a triangular-shaped piece of tissue from the lungs. The utility of wedge resection in NSCLC is disputed. Wedge resection is currently used in NSCLC patients with low pulmonary function, or for pulmonary tuberculosis patients with multiple lesions which do not respect intersegmental boundaries. [13]

  8. Mandibular fracture - Wikipedia

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    This is the most useful classification, because both the signs and symptoms, and also the treatment are dependent upon the location of the fracture. [6] The mandible is usually divided into the following zones for the purpose of describing the location of a fracture (see diagram): condylar, coronoid process, ramus, angle of mandible, body ...

  9. Avulsion - Wikipedia

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    Avulsion in general refers to a tearing away. Specifically, it can refer to: Avulsion fracture, when a fragment of bone tears away from the main mass of bone as a result of physical trauma; Avulsion injury, in which a body structure is detached from its normal point of insertion, either torn away by trauma or cut by surgery