There has been no difference in success in symptom improvement between the transsternal approach and the minimally invasive transcervical approach.

* The transcervical approach is a less invasive procedure that allows for removal of the entire thymus gland through a small neck incision.

Interestingly, there has been no difference in success in symptom improvement between the transsternal approach and the minimally invasive transcervical approach.

There are a number of surgical approaches to the removal of the thymus gland: transsternal ( through the sternum, or breast bone ), transcervical ( through a small neck incision ), and transthoracic ( through one or both sides of the chest ).

There are a number of surgical approaches to the removal of the thymus gland: transsternal ( through the breast bone ), transcervical ( through a small neck incision ), transthoracic ( through one or both sides of the chest.

However, transcervical chorionic villus sampling carries a significantly higher risk, compared with a second trimester amniocentesis, of total pregnancy loss ( relative risk 1. 40 ; 95 % confidence interval 1. 09 to 1. 81 ) and spontaneous miscarriage ( 9. 4 % risk ; relative risk 1. 50 ; 95 % confidence interval 1. 07 to 2. 11 ).

It can be performed in a transcervical or transabdominal manner.

The most fundamental concept of the new approach to economic aid is the focusing of our attention, our resources, and our energies on the effort to promote the economic and social development of the less developed countries.

If the less developed countries are to be persuaded to adopt a long-term approach, the United States, as the principal supplier of external aid, must be prepared to give long-term commitments.

Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.

While authors such as Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Marc Ferro and Jacques Le Goff continue to carry the Annales banner, today the Annales approach has been less distinctive as more and more historians do work in cultural history, political history and economic history.

Proponents of the adversarial system often argue that the system is more fair and less prone to abuse than the inquisitional approach, because it allows less room for the state to be biased against the defendant.

Some critics of this approach feel that while these models approach biological reality as a representation of how the system works, they lack explanatory powers because complicated systems of connections with even simple rules are extremely complex and often less interpretable than the system they model.

Co-composting is a technique that combines solid waste with de-watered biosolids, although difficulties controlling inert and plastics contamination from municipal solid waste makes this approach less attractive.

A more practical, albeit less quantitative, approach was put forward in the same year by Walter Heitler and Fritz London.

The hardwired approach has become less popular as computers have evolved as at one time, control units for CPUs were ad-hoc logic, and they were difficult to design.

This approach had appeared a few times in earlier years, but in general cuts to or from a closer shot within a scene were still being made more or less down the lens axis as established in the Long Shot of the scene in question.

Where Chandler, like Hammett, centered most of his novels and stories on the character of the private eye, Cain featured less heroic protagonists and focused more on psychological exposition than on crime solving ; the Cain approach has come to be identified with a subset of the hardboiled genre dubbed " noir fiction ".

However, a " flattist " approach was more or less shared by all the Fathers coming from the Syriac area, who were more inclined to follow the letter of the Old Testament.

A minimalist approach which was equal parts Val Lewton's theory of " less is more " ( usually employing the low-budget techniques utilized on The Blair Witch Project, 1999 ) has been evident, particularly in the emergence of Asian horror movies which have been remade into successful Americanized versions, such as The Ring ( 2002 ), and The Grudge ( 2004 ).

Far east traditional painting is characterized by water based techniques, less realism, " elegant " and stylized subjects, graphical approach to depiction, the importance of white space ( or negative space ) and a preference for landscape ( instead of human figure ) as a subject.

Erik Satie was also considered in this category, though his approach was regarded as less serious, more musical novelty in nature.

According to the trait approach, more effective leaders possess certain traits that less effective leaders lack.

In this way, Roads to Freedom presents a less theoretical and more practical approach to existentialism.

The " slippery slope " approach may also relate to the conjunction fallacy: with a long string of steps leading to an undesirable conclusion, the chance of all the steps actually occurring in sequence is less than the chance of any one of the individual steps occurring alone.

The simplest approach to decipherment may be to presume that the values of Linear A match more or less the values given to the fully translated Linear B script, used for Mycenean Greek.

Continuous-flow microfluidic operation is the mainstream approach because it is easy to implement and less sensitive to protein fouling problems.

" However, Freitas and Merkle argue that a focused effort to achieve diamond mechanosynthesis ( DMS ) can begin now, using existing technology, and might achieve success in less than a decade if their " direct-to-DMS approach is pursued rather than a more circuitous development approach that seeks to implement less efficacious nondiamondoid molecular manufacturing technologies before progressing to diamondoid ".

* Laparoscopy -- A minimally invasive approach to abdominal surgery where rigid tubes are inserted through small incisions into the abdominal cavity.

Besides the obvious combination of what are perceived to be good, clean-cut looks and a ubiquitous, almost invasive marketing campaign, one of the key selling points of the " manufactured band " is the " something for everyone " approach, although this strategy has been criticized for being more along the lines of " something for everyone who hasn't had much exposure to music ".

In contrast to the open fetal operative approach tested in the MOMS, a minimally invasive approach is currently being tested by the German Center for Fetal Surgery and Minimally Invasive Therapy at the University of Giessen, Germany.

If the problems of membrane rupture associated with fetoscopy can be solved, this minimally invasive approach to repairing myelomeningocele before birth should be tested clinically.

This usually requires the addition of substances which protect the cells during freezing and thawing ( cryoprotectants ), 3 ) preservation of organs under hypothermic conditions for transplantation, 4 ) lyophilization ( freeze-drying ) of pharmaceuticals, 5 ) cryosurgery, a ( minimally ) invasive approach for the destruction of unhealthy tissue using cryogenic gases / fluids, and 6 ) physics of supercooling, ice nucleation / growth and mechanical engineering aspects of heat transfer during cooling and warming, as applied to biological systems.

This procedure may be groundbreaking for patients with aneurysms near the skull base, as an approach through the nose is less invasive than traditional approaches.

One view suggests that this approach might advocate " invasive interference in family life.

Some charitable organizations, whose donations depend on promoting fear of breast cancer, still promote this technique as a one-size-fits-all, universal screening approach, even in the low-risk women who are most likely to be harmed by unnecessary invasive follow-up procedures.

A less common approach is minimally invasive endoscopic surgery.

APG101 constitutes an innovative approach to treating GBM since it has the therapeutic aim to inhibit the invasive growth of glioblastoma cells.

More recently, some cardiac surgeons have been performing aortic valve replacement procedures using an approach referred to as minimally invasive cardiac surgery ( MICS ), in which the surgeon replaces the valve through small incisions between two to four inches in length using specialized surgical instruments rather than by cutting a six to ten-inch incision down the center of the sternum.

can be done to that spot or area, using a minimally invasive approach.

This is a minimally invasive approach that removes the portion of the disc that presses against the nerve root.

Applying this approach, the control program uses all available scientific information regarding the San Francisco Estuary, the invasive cordgrasses, and the likely economic, sociological, and ecological consequences of both the invasion and the treatment program, to develop a management strategy that is effective, economical, and protective of public and environmental health.

This approach seeks to improve that lion's share of surgeries, particularly cardio-thoracic, that minimally invasive techniques have so failed to supplant.