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Retreatment

"Retreatment" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Retreatment" by people in this website by year, and whether "Retreatment" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 68 publications over 23 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2017
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