Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde
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Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd · Mar 2007
Comment[Palliative care is more than palliative antitumour treatment and symptom management].
Nowadays, many palliative treatments are available for advanced cancer. These treatments provide relief of symptoms and add months to life, but their price is high, both literally and figuratively. ⋯ This 'conspiracy of silence' makes it hard to say 'we don't have any further treatment'. Instead of saying 'we have no further treatment', patients should be offered palliative care as a positive choice to achieve the best quality of life, not only with physical but also with psychological, social and spiritual support.
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Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd · Mar 2007
Case Reports[Diagnostic image (313). A woman with peracute abdominal pain in the right lower quadrant].
A 29-year-old woman presented with peracute pain in the right lower quadrant of her abdomen, which at diagnostic laparoscopy appeared to be related to hematoperitoneum caused by bleeding ofa corpus rubrum.