Although small and asymptomatic BHs do not need to be treated surgically [22], there are no criteria to determine surgical indications for cases of digestive tract hernias.
Meckel diverticulum must be treated surgically if complications develop.
This condition cannot be treated surgically and is usually life-threatening.
Spencer, S. S. When should temporal-lobe epilepsy be treated surgically?
Unstable burst fractures of the thoracolumbar spine may be treated surgically.
Patches of endometriosis can be treated surgically, or through hormonal medical treatments, such as the pill.
Those considered high grade (types IV-VI) should be treated surgically within 2-3 weeks from the injury.
Cindy's hearing loss, for example, was caused by calcification of a bone in the middle ear and could be treated surgically, which she plans to pursue eventually.
Inclusion criteria were, for palliative treatment, incurable endobronchial cancer, and for curative treatment, residual tumor in the margins after resection, or endobronchial tumor could not be treated surgically.
Chronic insomnia may require the temporary use of sedatives, hypnosis, or psychotherapy; apnea and its associated insomnia may be treated surgically.
Conversely, among 19 patients in whom preoperative preparation and decompression was possible there was no mortality.69 Thus, once a paraesophageal hernia is identified, current thinking is that it should be treated surgically regardless of symptoms.
