The phrase "assigned to surgery" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in medical contexts to indicate that a patient or a case has been designated for surgical intervention.
Example: "After the evaluation, the patient was assigned to surgery for a necessary procedure."
Alternatives: "scheduled for surgery" or "designated for surgery."
About 40percentt of those assigned to surgery decided not to have it, often because their conditions improved while they awaited the operations.
There was no statistical difference in risk of death from prostate cancer or any cause among men who were randomly assigned to surgery or to an observation group.
The findings, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, come from a 15-year study of 731 men with early-stage prostate cancer who, surprisingly, had agreed to be randomly assigned to surgery or a program of watchful waiting.
RESULTS: Of 269 patients assigned to surgery during the 24 months that pathologic specimens were collected, surgical specimens from study eyes of 199 were submitted to the pathology center.
RESULTS: During the first three years of follow-up, functional-status scores on the Duke Activity Status Index, which measures the ability to perform common activities of daily living, improved more in patients assigned to surgery than in those assigned to angioplasty (P<0.05).
Sixty patients scheduled to be operated for a primary THR were enrolled in the study and were randomly assigned to surgery by one of three different TSS approaches: lateral with mini incision (group A), minimally invasive anterior (group B) and minimally invasive antero-lateral (group C).
Participating meant being randomly assigned to one surgery or the other.
While the National Institutes of Health is now about to start a large study in which patients with blocked carotid arteries will be randomly assigned to have surgery or stents, the results will not be known for years.
Patients were randomly assigned to receive surgery plus S-1 or surgery alone.
Patients with stage I disease (n=172) were randomly assigned to receive surgery alone (group A) or surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy (UFT (oral anti-cancer drug, a combination of Uracil and Tegaful) 400 mg day−1 for 1 year after surgery; group B).
When an overlap between internal medicine and surgery was detected, questions were assigned to the surgery discipline when surgical procedures were the correct treatment.
