28 Given the success of surgery in BLEC, the argument for surgical intervention is further strengthened by the improved health and longevity of HIV-infected patients.
Another persuasive argument favoring surgical excision of endometriomas relates to the dangers of expectant management such as ovarian torsion, cyst rupture, progression of endometriosis, or the threat of ovarian malignancy [ 15].
The presented pilot trial adds an additional argument for surgical decompression at an early stage in case of treatment-refractory intracranial hypertension, and calls for a controlled trial that includes this treatment option in pediatric severe head injury patients.
Central to the case for sham surgical trials is the argument for the need to control for bias and the placebo effect through a scientifically rigorous double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
If you think of surgical operations only, these arguments are reasonable, gender is of little importance.
Beginning in the 1930s, the political lobby for abortion law reform had focused on demanding access to safe, surgical abortions, and their arguments were laced with the language of class.
In the light of the present intensive discussion about the indication for microneurosurgical clipping or neuroradiological interventional coiling of intracranial aneurysms, the results given here in by B. O. Hutter can be regarded as an argument for the surgical intervention, in particular because the extravasated blood can only be cleared by surgery.
The same argument of insufficient surgical exposure could affect patients with concomitant lateral recess stenosis.
Arguments for early surgical treatment include easy of fracture reduction, and decrease in neurovascular complications, ischemic contracture, angular deformity and elbow stiffness.
Judge Yeakel rejected both arguments, finding that surgical facilities made little difference to the already low risk to women, and that the law would in effect leave open at most eight clinics to serve the entire state.
