They wanted to know, before they made their first incision, what was just below the surface.
But a new surgical procedure eliminates the surgeon's big incision and possibly reduces side effects.
This device is usually implanted in the chest through an incision in the shoulder.
In this procedure, a small incision is made in the abdomen, near or in the navel.
Among other possible complications Rachel Alexandra might face are abdominal adhesions, septic peritonitis, and infections of the surgical incision.
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The patients received gene therapy through a small incision made in the chest.
You'll also have small, plastic drainage tubes under your skin near your incision to help drain any fluids that accumulate.
He did not draw the skin incision to be made with the sterile marking pen the way the other professors did.
Dr Selby is said to have told them only an "inch-long incision" was needed to find out what caused their son's death.
The incision was thinner and cleaner than one made with a drill.
The lymph nodes are removed through a large incision in your abdomen.
This is much more involved, requires a large incision as well as division of large muscles of the neck with hospitalization for 1-2 days.
And he didn't realize his skin could naturally carry bacteria that could turn dangerous if allowed to enter his body through a surgical incision.
Any excess fat is sucked out with liposuction, but the excess glandular tissue has to be removed through a u-shaped incision around the nipple.
If the ectopic pregnancy is causing heavy bleeding or the fallopian tube has ruptured, you might need emergency surgery through an abdominal incision (laparotomy).
Temporary numbness or loss of feeling at the site of the incision is fairly common in face-lifts and tummy tucks, though it's rarely permanent.
It starts with a scalpel incision most of the way down the middle of the torso then a surgeon follows up with a Bovie pen.
It is compressed, along with a balloon, into an 8 millimeter catheter that is threaded up from an incision in the groin into the heart.
Under anesthesia, an incision is made in the scalp, a hole is drilled in the skull, and the device is placed on the surface of the brain.
Your surgeon inserts the tool into the eye's drainage canal through a small incision at the edge of the cornea and removes the small section of trabecular meshwork.
An early one involved a common neck operation, where a painful disc is pulled out of the cervical spine through a tiny incision with a tool called a curette.
Saline implants require a much smaller incision, meaning less scarring. (The shell of the implant is inserted and only then is it filled with saline.) Removing it is also easier.
Overall, the success rate is about 60% to 80% and depends on many factors (such as the type of uterine incision and the reason for the previous cesarean, among others).
Geraghty's pop pass to Paul Diggin created the initial incision and when the visitors swept the ball wide, Geraghty and Phil Dowson combined to send Clarke over in the corner.
They can get hernias at the site of incision, as well as "dumping" syndrome, where they get physically ill, nauseous and sweaty if they eat foods high in fat or sugar.
The first actual incision is scheduled for 10 a.m.
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After surgery, a dressing covers your incision or incisions.
There are two main approaches to repairing a hernia: an open repair that requires a large incision, or a minimally invasive laparoscopic technique, which uses a camera to guide instruments through a tiny incision.
But over the past three years, doctors at Landstuhl have learned that they often need to perform an immediate fasciotomy, a procedure where an incision is made deep into the skin, to relieve that pressure.
He also asked for money to set up a car hire business in Malta and for false surgery, an incision which would leave a scar, for example, so that he could avoid military service in Libya.
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