Furthermore, it is an additional procedure that may increase operative time, length of hospital stay and costs (Salama 1983; Seiler and Johnson 2000).
In melanoma, this question is more pressing than in breast cancer because the sentinel node procedure is an additional operation, compared with the preexisting situation in which clinically normal lymph node fields were generally observed.
Second, secondary surgery can be employed as an additional procedure should neurological recovery be incomplete after nerve reconstruction.
Currently, the multi-modality radiography synthesis is an additional standard procedure in medical diagnosis and cure methods, which can be used to diagnose or exclude disease.
As the WHO classification at present is heavily debated because of low reproducibility and lack of objectivity in diagnostics, 34 the D-score was used as an additional procedure to compensate for this limitation.
Then in the right eye (control group), conjunctival suturing was done without an additional procedure, and in the left eye (fibrin glue group), small amount (about 0.02 ml: 0.01 ml from each syringe) of fibrin glue (Greenplast kit®, Green cross, Gyeonggi-do, Korea) was applied between the recessed muscle and the sclera.
Thus, in the present case, the resection area was very carefully determined, and an additional procedure was performed to avoid postoperative complications.
In Patient 3, the surface of the repaired cartilage appeared hypertrophic but was soft, although its deep zone was cartilaginous (Fig. 5A, B); therefore, an additional procedure was not performed.
The 'hazard' for undergoing an additional revascularisation procedure decreased with increasing age while those with greater comorbidity were more likely to have an additional procedure as were those who underwent a multi-vessel PCI in the index admission.
Exploration of the IMC is an extra procedure that carries an additional risk of intra and post-operative complications and a less satisfactory cosmetic outcome.
