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Pelvic exenteration is known as

A
Miles Operation
B
Lloyds operation
C
Finch operation
D
Brunschwig operation
High-Yield Explanation
Pelvic exenteration (or pelvic evisceration) or Brunschwig's operation is a radical surgical treatment that removes all organs from a person's pelvic cavity - rectum, anus, urinary bladder, urethra, all the lymph nodes, fat, fascia, uterus, vagina- with colostomy and urinary diversion. It is performed for many types of very advanced or recurrent cancers including genitourinary and colorectal cancers.Miles and Lloyd - Davies operations are types of abdominoperineal resection wherein sigmoid , descending colon and upper rectum are resected per abdominally and anal canal witg perianal and perirectal tissues are dissected per anally. Miles - abdomen first, perineum later; Lloyd - Davies- synchronised ( together or combined) Reference : page 958-59 SRB's manual of surgery 5th edition

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