Sentences with phrase «before laparoscopic surgery»

In fact, it's resonated for me for at least 28 years, going back to a bit of hubris I demonstrated as a medical student watching a distinguished Harvard surgeon perform surgery to remove a patient's gall bladder (back before laparoscopic surgery and keyhole incisions became the norm).

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I saw my fertility doctor and scheduled my third laparoscopic surgery to clear my endometriosis (I had surgery before each pregnancy).

In this analysis we did not include patients without hernias, those who withdrew their consent before undergoing surgery, those who at the time of surgery were found to be poor candidates for general anaesthesia, and those who did not undergo the assigned operation because of a misunderstanding resulting in an unplanned open or laparoscopic repair.21