Some epileptics who don't respond to drugs undergo brain surgery. Before cutting, surgeons implant electrodes to determine the exact site of the problem and to test healthy regions.
So, when orthopedic surgeons write a prescription, they will see a relatively short list of medicines instead of having to browse through thousands of options.
Normally when patients undergo corrective laser eye surgery, surgeons use video cameras to track the position of the eye so that the surgical laser targets the right place on the cornea.
Within a decade, robotic surgeons may be able to perform operations much more reliably than any human.
Doctors, medical students and curious non-medical personnel followed along as surgeons tweeted short updates on the kidney surgery to remove a cancerous tumor.
It is a general practice of the orthopaedic surgeons to strip the periosteum, to ream the medullary cavity etc, which may easily cause injury of the nutrient artery of the long bones.
Externally funded surgeons performed 80% of the 140 cleft lip and palate operations.
Swedish surgeons now refuse to operate on smokers until they give up, because of the deleterious effect smoking has on the healing process, Gudnason added.
On the brain's surface a filigree of arteries feeds blood to the region under the surgeons' urgent scrutiny: a part of her left frontal lobe critical to the production of spoken language.
Some plastic surgeons cite Greek mathematicians to argue there is a universal beauty ideal based on classical notions of proportion.
The mood left him in Vienna, where he studied under some of the leading surgeons.
Garwood says there is a critical need for surgeons. He says there are more than 2,000 amputee cases in Haiti as a result of the injuries sustained in the earthquake.
When the surgeons told us they had to cut her head apart like a jigsaw I felt sick. But there was no choice.
Thanks to cosmetic surgery, "we can now hold onto our beauty for longer", Professor Shamban said, but she warned that as the artists of this generation, surgeons must take their role seriously.
Despite the rapid evolution of reconstructive technologies for the musculoskeletal system, bone grafting remains an important tool for modern surgeons.
When the surgeons told us they had to cut her head apart like a jigsaw I felt sick.
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