Salvage Surgery
1. Palliative surgery The excision of a tissue designed to reduce the risk of death due to physiologic derangement
2. Limb-salvage surgery
3. Salvage cystoprostatectomy
4. Salvage prostatectomy
Surgical oncology Thoracic surgeons define salvage surgery as lung cancer surgery intended to eradicate all remaining or recurrent tumours when other modalities fail
Trauma surgery A surgical procedure to correct major vascular injuries and other sources of bleeding that are immediately life-threatening, followed by immediate cessation of the operation