Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
retreatment
Subclass of:
Therapeutic procedure
Definitions related to retreatments:
  • The repeated act of the dispensing, applying, or tendering of something to another after an initial treatment.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The therapy of the same disease in a patient, with the same agent or procedure repeated after initial treatment, or with an additional or alternate measure or follow-up. It does not include therapy which requires more than one administration of a therapeutic agent or regimen. Retreatment is often used with reference to a different modality when the original one was inadequate, harmful, or unsuccessful.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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