The patient had abdominal scars that would have made conventional surgery difficult.
A larger study has already established that PrePex is safer than conventional surgery.
When compared to 25 children who had conventional surgery, the dozen in the trial had clearer lenses, less inflammation and healed faster.
As in real warfare, those weapons may be conventional (surgery), chemical (cancer-killing drugs) or nuclear (radiation therapy).
Lasers are now widely used to destroy tumours and other pigmented lesions, some of which are inaccessible by conventional surgery.
The device, known as PrePex, is the only adult circumcision method, other than conventional surgery, to gain W.H.O.
For some forms of cancer, particularly cancers of the brain, radiosurgery is considered a valid alternative to conventional surgery.
Ms Jensen was not considered suitable for other, conventional surgery because the passage of air through her voicebox and windpipe was completely blocked.
In a study of nearly 240 patients with lower back pain, the doctors said that the Prodisc, an artificial spinal disk, had worked much better than conventional surgery in which patients' vertebrae were fused.
Is a da Vinci prostatectomy better than conventional surgery?
The trauma to the body with conventional surgery is not proportionate to the target organ..
