open surgery
collocation in Englishmeaningsofopenandsurgery
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open
adjective
uk/ˈəʊ.pən/us/ˈoʊ.pən/
not closed ...
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surgery
noun
uk/ˈsɜː.dʒər.i/us/ˈsɝː.dʒər.i/
the treatment of injuries or diseases in people or animals by cutting open the body and removing or repairing the ...
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(Definition ofopenandsurgeryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Some cases will need conversion toopensurgery.
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No studies assessed long-term outcomes for endovascular repair relative toopensurgery.
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Compared withopensurgery, it is believed to offer short-term quality of life benefits (12).
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Regardless of the time frame, all studies found that endovascular repair costs more thanopensurgery.
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Regardless of time frame, all studies found that endovascular repair costs more thanopensurgery.
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Of the forty patients, twenty-one had undergone laparoscopic and nineteen conventionalopensurgery.
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Robotic surgery also has benefits of minimal pain, little blood loss, better cosmetics, and quicker recovery compared withopensurgery.
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The result showed significantly higher costs to the health care system for laparoscopic surgery than foropensurgery.
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Higher costs are attributable to greater long-term complications, need for reintervention, and long-term monitoring thanopensurgery.
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Studies focusing on hospital costs generally found that endovascular repair costs more to perform thanopensurgery, primarily due to the cost of the prosthesis.
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Data on the clinical effectiveness of laparoscopic andopensurgeryfor colorectal cancer were obtained from a systematic review of the literature.
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For patients medically fit foropensurgery, mid-term costs were greater for endovascular repair with no difference in overall survival or quality of life.
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However, clinical studies show evidence of reduced postoperative pain (1;8) and that recovery time tends to be shorter than foropensurgery.
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The procedure consists of transplanting a series of small cylinders of osteochondral tissue from patient self-donor sites into the lesion byopensurgeryor, occasionally, by arthroscopy.
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Two randomized controlled trials provide evidence that there is no difference in overall survival between endovascular repair andopensurgery2 years following the initial hospitalization.
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Thus, any potential advantage to endovascular repair versusopensurgerylies early in the care process, for example, fewer complications, reduced hospital length of stay, and so on.
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There have also been changes in technique involving lessopensurgeryand more day treatment.
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There is a unique operating theatre where radiation is carried out underopensurgery.
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Theopensurgerytakes long time to recover fromopensurgeryand patients often need their tracheotomy tube replaced.
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Opensurgeryhas the mortality risk of major vascular surgery with perioperative complications, including myocardial and spinal cord ischemia, respiratory and renal failure, ischemic colitis, and prosthetic graft infection (27).
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Opensurgeryhas a greater chance of being considered cost-effective, for the base-case analysis, at the various threshold values of society's willingness to pay for a life-year.
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All involve arthroscopy and some requireopensurgery, as well.
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Surgery may be done arthroscopically or asopensurgery.
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Opensurgeryhas a high morbidity and mortality.
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