Word: incisional
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Rosengart performed the operation in mid-January. He made a 5-in. incision in my back--the scar feels as if I could mail letters through it--and pried open ribs (which still ache when I sneeze) to expose the heart, which he injected 20 times with a cold virus...
It takes a particularly skilled radiologist to do a Mammotome on smaller breasts like mine. If I hadn't found such a radiologist, I might very well have lost a chunk of my breast for no reason. Instead I had a quick, simple procedure. Fully conscious, with only a local...
In his Phase I trial, Isner injected a saline solution containing his naked DNA through a small "keyhole" incision in the chest of his heart patients and directly into their heart muscle. A few weeks later, tests on everyone in the trial group showed greatly improved blood flow to the...
Now more than ever, you have to plan ahead for surgery. As recently as 15 years ago, most patients checked into the hospital the night before their operation and stayed at least a day or two to recover. Today more than 60% of all operations occur on an outpatient basis...
In TMR a surgeon makes a small incision in the left side of the chest and exposes the left ventricle, the chamber that forces oxygenated blood into the arteries. While the heart pauses between beats and fills with blood, a laser is used to shoot a minuscule hole through the...