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The incision is deepened through the muscle layers to the rib, which is removed in its entirety subperiosteally, being resected between its posterior angle and the spine . It is ...

Incision-free surgery treats acid reflux: Allegan surgeon is training other doctors to do the procedure . Updated: ; Feb. 18, 2010, 11:00 a.m. | Published: ; Feb. 18 ...

A similar comparative study has been done with an L-shaped scleral incision and a conventional 3.2-mm scleral tunnel incision in which a non-foldable IOL was inserted from the L-shaped incision ...

If your outer incision is opening, your doctor will probably give you a local injection to numb the area and then remove the skin or tissue just around the site. Then the freshly opened site will ...

Figure 2. The diamond keratome is used to make a temporal phaco incision at the steep meridian (15° in this case) by starting at the very periphery of the cornea (top frame) and slightly nicking ...

The classical Kocher incision for thyroid surgery, which is approximately 10 cm long, has been the gold standard for more than a century. Since the introduction of Minimally Invasive ...

Today, Virtual Incision Corporation, a medical device company pioneering a first-of-its-kind miniaturized surgical robot, announced it has raised $20 million ...