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Curettage, in surgery
Surgery

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance, or sometimes for some other reason....
, is the use of a curette
Curette

A curette is a spoon-shaped surgery instrument for cleaning a diseased surface. As a verb, "to curette" means to use a curette Another version of a curette is used by hygienists and periodontist in dental work....
 to remove tissue
Biological tissue

Tissue is a cellular organizational level intermediate between cells and a complete organism. Hence, a tissue is an ensemble of cells, not necessarily identical, but from the same origin, that together carry out a specific function....
 by scraping or scooping. It may be used to obtain a biopsy
Biopsy

A biopsy is a medical test involving the removal of Cell_s or Biological tissues for examination. It is the removal of tissue from a living subject to determine the presence or extent of a disease....
 of a mass
Mass

In physical science, mass refers to the degree of acceleration a body acquires when subject to a force: bodies with greater mass are accelerated less by the same force....
 to determine if it is a granuloma
Granuloma

A granuloma is a medical term for a ball-like collection of immune cells trying to destroy a foreign substance. It represents a special type of inflammatory reaction common to a wide variety of diseases, both infectious and non-infectious....
, neoplasm, or some other tumor
Tumor

A tumor or tumour is the name for a swelling or lesion formed by an abnormal growth of cells . Tumor is not synonymous with cancer. A tumor can be Benign neoplasm, Carcinoma in situ or malignant, whereas cancer is by definition malignant....
. It is often employed prior to definitive excisional surgery to more precisely delineate the extent of a tumor. In selected cases, curettage may be employed to treat certain "low risk" skin cancers such as superficial basal cell carcinoma
Basal cell carcinoma

Basal cell carcinoma is the most common of all types of skin cancer. Statistically speaking, approximately 3 out of 10 caucasians develop a basal cell cancer within their lifetime....
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Curettage, in surgery
Surgery

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance, or sometimes for some other reason....
, is the use of a curette
Curette

A curette is a spoon-shaped surgery instrument for cleaning a diseased surface. As a verb, "to curette" means to use a curette Another version of a curette is used by hygienists and periodontist in dental work....
 to remove tissue
Biological tissue

Tissue is a cellular organizational level intermediate between cells and a complete organism. Hence, a tissue is an ensemble of cells, not necessarily identical, but from the same origin, that together carry out a specific function....
 by scraping or scooping. It may be used to obtain a biopsy
Biopsy

A biopsy is a medical test involving the removal of Cell_s or Biological tissues for examination. It is the removal of tissue from a living subject to determine the presence or extent of a disease....
 of a mass
Mass

In physical science, mass refers to the degree of acceleration a body acquires when subject to a force: bodies with greater mass are accelerated less by the same force....
 to determine if it is a granuloma
Granuloma

A granuloma is a medical term for a ball-like collection of immune cells trying to destroy a foreign substance. It represents a special type of inflammatory reaction common to a wide variety of diseases, both infectious and non-infectious....
, neoplasm, or some other tumor
Tumor

A tumor or tumour is the name for a swelling or lesion formed by an abnormal growth of cells . Tumor is not synonymous with cancer. A tumor can be Benign neoplasm, Carcinoma in situ or malignant, whereas cancer is by definition malignant....
. It is often employed prior to definitive excisional surgery to more precisely delineate the extent of a tumor. In selected cases, curettage may be employed to treat certain "low risk" skin cancers such as superficial basal cell carcinoma
Basal cell carcinoma

Basal cell carcinoma is the most common of all types of skin cancer. Statistically speaking, approximately 3 out of 10 caucasians develop a basal cell cancer within their lifetime....
. Rarely, curettage may be employed palliatively to debulk masses.

Curettage is also a declining method of abortion
Abortion

An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death....
. It has been replaced by vacuum aspiration over the last decade.

Curettage is also employed to treat periodontally affected teeth. Curette instruments may be used to remove granulated and infected or inflamed tissue around the involved teeth. Removal of the granulation tissue via curettage promotes healing of the periodontal tissues and a reduction in pocket depths around the teeth.

See also


  • dilation and curettage
    Dilation and curettage

    Dilation and curettage literally refers to the Cervical dilation of the cervix and surgical removal of the contents of the uterus. It is a therapeutic gynecological procedure as well as a rarely used method of first trimester abortion....