Sentence examples for rigid instruments from inspiring English sources

In pedicle screw fixation surgery, rigid instruments are inserted into a vertebral body.

The long, rigid instruments and cameras typically used in laparoscopic surgery are constrained by the entry incision.

"Whereas with this, rather than just having rigid instruments, you have like little hands on the end of it that move around like your own hands.

Laparoscopic reconstructive surgery is associated with a steep learning curve related to the use of two-dimensional (2D) vision and rigid instruments.

Flexible endoscopy and concurrent endoscopic ultrasound using a high-frequency catheter probe have decreased the rate of perforation that occurs with rigid instruments [ 8].

This should be assessed using rigid instruments (e.g. the ends of dental mirror handles) and a score allocated to affected teeth.

A tube that could be inserted down the esophagus and upon which a light was mounted to illuminate the area visualized was invented in about 1889; this rigid instrument was soon replaced by the semiflexible gastroscope, developed by Rudolf Schindler in 1932, and then by the flexible fibre-optic gastroscope, developed by Basil Hirschowitz in 1957.

Cross-fiber massage (also known as deep transverse or friction massage) involves applying the finger/s or a rigid instrument directly over a tissue lesion and transverse to the direction of the underlying collagen fibers.

Pain is avoided through the use of gentle clinical techniques with non-rigid instruments, and non-use of uterine elevators.

The transvaginal/transumbilical cholecystectomy was performed with rigid reusable instruments in the lithotomy position, as described by Zornig et al. 9 The first surgeon was standing on the left of the patient, the second surgeon between the legs.

Due to limited access when using a rigid laparoscopic instrument to create a curved tunnel of 5-6 cm of length, overdue tension at the peritoneum during dissection may accidently be applied.