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| | Minimally invasive - definition of Minimally invasive in Encyclopedia |
 | | Many medical procedures are considered minimally invasive, such as hypodermic injection, air-pressure injection, subdermal implants, endoscopy, percutaneous surgery, laparoscopic surgery, arthroscopic surgery, cryosurgery, coronary catheterization, angioplasty, permanent spinal and brain electrodes, stereotactic surgery, radioactivity-based medical imaging methods, such as gamma camera, Positron emission tomography and SPECT (single photon emission tomography). | | | A minimally invasive medical procedure is defined as one that is carried out by entering the body through the skin or through a body cavity or anatomical opening, but with the smallest damage possible to these structures. | | | However, minimally invasive is not synonymous with minor surgery, because this approach is presently used for performing complex operations such as heart surgery. |
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| | Minimally Invasive Pectus Excavatum Repair (Nuss Procedure), Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center |
| | During the minimally invasive procedure incisions are made on each side of the chest underneath the arm. | | | The patient is usually sent home on several different pain medications, including narcotics and muscle relaxants, as well as an antiinflammatory medication such as ibuprofen. | | | This can be done using either a minimally invasive technique (sometimes referred to as the Nuss Procedure), or by open surgical repair. |
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| | Minimally Invasive Surgery |
| | Minimally invasive surgery refers to a surgical technique that is performed by using a small video camera and a few specialized instruments to perform surgery with minimal tissue injury. | | | By using a long, thin surgical instrument with a tiny video camera attached to it, the surgeon is able to enter the body through a series of tiny incisions (5 to 10 millimeters) to view and explore the body and perform the operation. | | | Minimally invasive surgery offers many attractive advantages over traditional surgery. |
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| | Minimally invasive heart surgery |
| | These approaches restore healthy blood flow to the heart without having to stop the heart and put the patient on a heart-lung machine during surgery. | | | MIDCAB: This procedure offers the benefits of conventional CABG but produces less traumatic injury; the recovery may be closer to that experienced by angioplasty patients. | | | Minimally invasive heart surgery refers to several approaches for bypassing critically blocked arteries that are less difficult and risky than conventional open-heart surgery (coronary artery bypass grafting -- CABG). |
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| | Minimally Invasive Solid Tumor Biopsy May Replace Surgery To Get Diagnostic Specimens |
| | Inserting biopsy needles through the skin appears to be a safe and reliable alternative to surgery for obtaining diagnostic samples of a suspected solid tumor in children, according to results of a study by investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. | | | New Cancer Procedure At Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Offers Hope (April 12, 1999) -- Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is the only facility in the Southeast offering a new procedure for malignant tumors previously thought untreatable. | | | Fine Tuning Drug Levels In Neuroblastoma Patients Is Effective, St. Jude Researchers Show (June 20, 2005) -- Monitoring and fine tuning the levels of the cancer drug topotecan in children with neuroblastoma holds promise for maximizing the drug's effectiveness while reducing its toxicity, according to... |
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| | minimally invasive surgery |
| | The department of surgery at Boston's New England Medical Center is a multidisciplinary team of board-certified surgeons, radiologists, oncologists, and social service support personnel who together apply the latest minimally invasive techniques. | | | surgery department nemc, boston, boston women's health, nemc surgeons, minimally invasive surgery, surgeons, boston surgery consultation, boston transplant surgery, plastic surgery, icu boston, new england medical center, vascular surgery |
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