Sentences with phrase «removed by the surgeon»

He would have that tumor and then a few others removed by surgeons.

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Traditional rhinoplasties, or «nose jobs,» are a surgical procedure that can reshape the nose for cosmetic reasons or correct a deviated septum by removing bone or cartilage, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

Because the wound kept getting re-infected the surgeons nearly had to amputate his foot completely but saved it by removing 8 centimetres of his tendon and grafted a patch of skin from his arm to cover the scars.

Depending on the severity of the tear, the orthopedic surgeon may cut out and remove the torn piece of labrum, or repair the torn tissue by sewing it back together.

If surgery is performed the surgeon tries to open up the channel in vertebrae where the spinal cord goes by removing some bone where it presses on the nerves.

In 2011, the US Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin, issued the Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding, and challenged the entire nation to remove obstacles to breastfeeding, including ensuring access to services that are provided by IBCLCs.

In many cases, surgeons can save brain tissue that's on the brink of death by removing clots in the brain.

Surgeons prevent biofilms in limbs by removing all the wounded tissue, amputating if necessary.

Surgical oncologists, or cancer surgeons, usually remove breast cancers by relying on tactile feedback and radiologic images of the tumor, such as mammograms and ultrasound images, said M. Catherine Lee, MD, FACS, coauthor of the first study and associate professor of surgery at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Fla..

When chlorotoxin is tagged with a fluorescent dye, it will illuminate a tumour — a trick that makes the surgeon's job easier by helping to pinpoint cancerous growth and ensure that all the cancerous cells are removed and healthy tissue spared.

Patients with temporal - type migraine derive similar and significant improvement from techniques that relieve pressure on (decompression) or remove a portion of (neurectomy) the nerve responsible for triggering their headaches, reports the study by ASPS Member Surgeon Bahman Guyuron, MD, Emeritus professor of plastic surgery at Case School of Medicine, Cleveland, and colleagues.

By removing tissue from each side of Molaison's brain, the surgeon helped quell the attacks but destroyed his patient's ability to form new memories.

In a 14 - hour operation last July in Vienna, Austria, a team of nine surgeons led by Rolf Ewers removed the diseased organ and replaced it with a tongue from a brain - dead donor.

A surgeon named William Beecher Scoville had done experimental surgeries suggesting that severe epilepsy could be treated by removing the parts of the brain that caused the electrical malfunction.

The researchers found that OTL38 accumulated in FRα - positive tumors and metastases, and enabled the surgeons to remove an additional 29 percent of malignant lesions (confirmed by pathological examination of the resected tumors) that could not be identified with naked eyes and / or palpation.

The case was highlighted in the press, and in June health minister Bernard Kouchner responded by telling surgeons that before removing corneas they must consult close relatives to find out if the dead person had ever expressed a wish not to donate them.

By the Duke researchers» calculations, surgeons operating on patients with a stage T1b tumor (more than 1 cm, but less than 2 cm at its widest point) can be 90 percent sure they have contained the cancer if they remove 6 lymph nodes around the tumor that test negative for the disease.

The first case of BIID was reported in the 18th century, when a French surgeon was held at gunpoint by an Englishman who demanded that one of his legs be removed.

When the injured person gets to a surgeon, the glue can be removed by cooling it down with water (Science Translational Medicine, doi.org/cg5z).

Their analysis is designed to help surgeons minimize the tissue removed while operating on cancer patients by providing highly accurate, real - time information about the health of the excised tissue.

In some cases, surgeons have successfully treated such limited cancer spread, producing long - term survival by removing the primary cancer and one or two distant tumors, off - shoots of the original cancer — usually in the lung or liver.

If a bone has been damaged by the tumor or by removing the tumor, the orthopedic surgeon can usually reconstruct the bone to preserve function.

The surgery can be «open» — meaning, the doctor will make a large cut to remove the tumor, surrounding healthy tissue, and nearby lymph nodes all at once — or «minimally invasive,» in which a surgeon can use special tools to remove the growths by making a few smaller cuts.

A major issue pushed by the LGBT movement, trans - genderism (as opposed to trans - gender dressing) did not pop up the day before yesterday but became an issue as far back as 1930 when a surgeon in Germany performed the first and thereby a risky series of operations that changed a man's sex by removing his male parts and constructing a vagina with ovaries.

If present concurrently, meniscal injury will be addressed by your surgeon by removing the damaged meniscal parts when performing surgery to stabilize the knee.

On March 5, veterinary surgeons first performed oral surgery to remove two of the dog's upper teeth and reconstruct one eyelid that had been damaged by the motorcycle.

Lab analysis identified the mass as a malignancy and it was removed surgically by our consulting board - certified surgeon, Dr. Dan Frankel.

Removing the anal sacs is a delicate, specialized procedure that in most cases should be performed by a board - certified veterinary surgeon.

Plaque and calculus can be removed by a veterinary surgeon while the cat is under a general anaesthetic.

In the past, radiation therapy was commonly used to treat cancers that were non-resectable by surgeons or for tumors that were incompletely removed at surgery.

Veterinary surgeons can repair, replace, or remove some of the mechanical defects caused by dysplasia.