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In surgery, a surgical incision is a cut made through the skin and soft tissue to facilitate an operation or procedure. Often, multiple incisions are possible for an operation. In general, a surgical incision is made as small and unobtrusive as possible to facilitate safe and timely operating conditions.
surgery, a surgicalincision is a cut made through the skin and soft tissue to facilitate an operation or procedure. Often, multiple incisions are possible...
Pfannenstiel incision /ˈfɑːnɪnʃtiːl/, Kerr incision, Pfannenstiel-Kerr incision or pubic incision is a type of abdominal surgicalincision that allows...
Incision and drainage (I&D), also known as clinical lancing, are minor surgical procedures to release pus or pressure built up under the skin, such as...
A laparotomy is a surgical procedure involving a surgicalincision through the abdominal wall to gain access into the abdominal cavity. It is also known...
pattern, the Inverted-T incision, and the Lollipop pattern, which are performed with circumvertical and horizontal surgicalincisions; which produce a periareolar...
Episiotomy, also known as perineotomy, is a surgicalincision of the perineum and the posterior vaginal wall generally done by an obstetrician. This is...
patient’s lungs and the outside world. Surgical methods for airway management rely on making a surgicalincision below the glottis in order to achieve...
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periareolar incision technique that produces only a periareolar scar – around the NAC, where the dark-to-light skin-color transition hides the surgical scar...
to immobilize the altered nose to ensure the proper healing of the surgicalincision. Treatments for the plastic repair of a broken nose are first mentioned...
Many surgical procedure names can be broken into parts to indicate the meaning. For example, in gastrectomy, "ectomy" is a suffix meaning the removal of...
known as minimally invasive surgeries) encompass surgical techniques that limit the size of incisions needed, thereby reducing wound healing time, associated...
A hysterotomy is an incision made in the uterus. This surgicalincision is used in several medical procedures, including during termination of pregnancy...
Maylard incision is a surgicalincision in which a transverse cut is made on rectus abdominis muscle to allow wider access to the pelvic cavity. It is...
splinter Surgicalincision, a cut made through the skin and soft tissue to facilitate an operation or procedure River incision, in geomorphology Incisions (album)...
as laparoscopic surgical equipment costs are expensive. Traditional open surgery is usually performed through a ventral midline incision below the umbilicus...
that may otherwise require creating a much larger incision and converting to a fully open surgical procedure. Conceptually, the laparoscopic approach...
for oozing or potentially contaminated wounds.[citation needed] In surgicalincisions it does not work as well as sutures as the wounds often break open...
application of transvaginal mesh differs in terms of mesh shape, surgicalincision and the position of mesh. Since 2019, transvaginal mesh has been banned...
Wound dehiscence is a surgical complication in which a wound ruptures along a surgicalincision. Risk factors include age, collagen disorder such as Ehlers–Danlos...
Median sternotomy is a type of surgical procedure in which a vertical inline incision is made along the sternum, after which the sternum itself is divided...
An incisional hernia is a type of hernia caused by an incompletely-healed surgical wound. Since median incisions in the abdomen are frequent for abdominal...
skin, the surgicalincision for the brachioplasty can be placed under the arm. This allows for easy concealment of the scar. Minimal incision brachioplasty...
a less-invasive surgical technique, by inserting an empty, rolled-up breast implant through a smaller surgicalincision. In surgical practice, after having...
Lithotomy is a procedure in which a surgicalincision is made and the bladder, ureters or affected organ opened surgically to remove stones. Human beings have...
also /ˌtræki-/), or tracheostomy, is a surgical airway management procedure which consists of making an incision (cut) on the anterior aspect (front) of...
standard surgical sterility. At this stage of the "No-Touch" technique, after the incision has been made, all instruments, including surgical gloves that...
insertion-incisions are short and small, the resultant incision-scars will be smaller and shorter than the surgical scars usual to the long incisions required...