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Audio Interchange File Format  |  1996-11-08  |  1.5 MB  |  1 channel  |  11,025 sample rate  |  1 minute, 9 seconds
Transcription: Bench surgery. Complete removal of a selected organ or tissue from the body during surgery in order to perform a separate, often delicate or complex surgical procedure. The organ is then replaced into the body in its original site, however sometimes the location is changed. Bench surgery can allow better control for removal of a tumor, particularly in a vital organ which cannot or does not have to be totally sacrificed. Delicate surgery often requiring a microscope delineation of margins of resection to assure the tumor is fully exaused or to lessen spilling of cancer cells into the surroundin ...