One test of a cancer surgeon is knowing when surgery is pointless and when to forge ahead.
He also pointed out other potential uses: "A surgeon could perform remote surgery, by controlling their virtual self from a different location, " he said.
She is now one of 18 patients suing her surgeon for negligent gastric bypass surgery.
Professor Lewis is the surgeon credited with establishing heart surgery in the South West about 15 years ago.
These satellite lesions are best evaluated and treated by a dermatologist experienced in their removal and you may need referral to a plastic surgeon who specializes in hand surgery.
She was a cosmetic and reconstructive surgeon who had performed breast reconstruction surgery for numerous cancer patients.
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In his view a surgeon who wants to perform even minimally invasive bariatric surgery should attend specific courses, take fellowships and operate under the trained eye of an expert surgeon.
Consultant plastic surgeon David Soutar, of Canniesburn Plastic Surgery Unit in Glasgow - the largest in Scotland, said Scots were happy to fork out to try to obtain the slim, muscular figures they had witnessed.
"Those who diagnose breast cancer and those who do mastectomy are separate from the plastic surgeons who do the reconstruction, " explains Dr. Frank DellaCroce, a surgeon at the Center for Restorative Breast Surgery in New Orleans, Louisiana, the place where Anderson's breast reconstruction was performed.
"My patients often bring pictures of the stars they want to look like, but I never do what they say because it wouldn't suit their face, " says Canan Melike Koksuz, a surgeon at Isom, an Istanbul cosmetic surgery practice, which says it has welcomed chief executives and celebrities from as far away as China and Australia for hair transplants.
At a meeting of China's parliament in March, Wang Chunlan, a leading plastic surgeon, called for higher standards after botched surgery complaints reached 20, 000 a year.
The procedures are being carried out by consultant urological surgeon Mr Ghulam Nabi who specialises in keyhole surgery for diseases of the male and female urinary tract and the male reproductive organs.
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According to Dr. Richard Chaffoo, a San Diego-based plastic surgeon with experience in the area, reconstructive breast surgery is more complicated than purely aesthetic surgery of the breast and is associated with more surgical procedures and subsequent complications.
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This may be one reason why so many people who say they need back surgery suddenly feel great after a smiling surgeon tells them he has just given them the latest in high-tech operation, despite dubious objective evidence that it works.
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For instance, there was a 53-year-old surgeon who cut his hand while he was doing surgery on, if I recall correctly, on abdominal cancer in a woman, and he ended up with a tumor of his hand that came from the woman's own cancer.
Hamish Laing, honorary secretary of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) and consultant plastic surgeon at the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery, said it was a novel idea to make artificial skin that would not only cover the wound but actively fight infection.
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The "surgery was performed without complications, " her surgeon Robert Udelsman said.
The closer you work with your surgeon to establish specific, measurable and achievable goals before surgery, the more likely you are to be satisfied with the results.
Find a plastic surgeon who is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, the only plastic surgery board that is recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties.
Years ago, Doonesbury took aim at the hazards of low-volume hospitals in a strip where a surgeon confided he kept his skills sharp by practicing brain surgery on large melons.
Much like Jones, Dr. Marc Goldstein, surgeon-in-chief of male reproductive medicine and surgery at the Cornell Institute for Reproductive Medicine in New York, saw a 48 percent increase in vasectomy consultations compared with the same time last year.
The panel met to evaluate use of the novel device in patients with significant symptomatic mitral regurgitation (MR) who have been determined by a cardiac surgeon to be too high risk for open mitral valve surgery and in whom existing co-morbidities would not preclude the expected benefit from correction of the MR.
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The surgeon told me if I had carried on boxing without the surgery it would have ruined my career.
Italian media reported Sunday night that surgeon Igor Rossello was pleased with the outcome of the emergency surgery on the F1 star.
Fewer than 300 people in the study had gastric bypass surgery, a more dramatic technique in which the surgeon creates a golf-ball-shaped pouch to curb food intake.
Devi Shetty is India's most celebrated heart surgeon, having performed the country's first neonatal heart surgery on a nine-day-old baby, and numbered Mother Teresa among his patients.
"If we turned up at the doctor's surgery or the lawyer's offices or a surgeon's consultation we would expect them to look professional, it's the same with teachers, " he said.
During the surgery, Ponting had a pin inserted in his wrist by surgeon Greg Hoy.
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