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laparotomy

Exploratory surgical procedure involving incision into the abdomen. The use of laparotomy, as of other exploratory surgery, has decreased sharply with advances in medical imaging and the direct-viewing technique known as endoscopy.
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[25] All tumor sites that were seen on CT were also seen on PET, and three patients who had negative laparotomies also had negative abdominal CT and PET scans.
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