When such types of tumors are encountered, diagnostic modalities such as ultrasound, CT scans, MRI, angiograms, and nuclear medicine scans are employed prior to ( or during ) biopsy and / or surgical exploration / excision in an attempt to avoid such severe complications.

When surgery was performed by the physician Hua Tuo ( d. 208 CE ), he used anesthesia to numb his patients ' pain and prescribed a rubbing ointment that allegedly sped the process of healing surgical wounds.

When the patient is judged to have recovered from the anesthesia, he / she is either transferred to a surgical ward elsewhere in the hospital or discharged home.

When Moten died in 1935 after a surgical procedure, the band unsuccessfully tried to stay together but couldn't make a go of it.

( When Koop established the pediatric surgical division at CHOP in 1946, it was the first such service in Philadelphia and only the second such service established in America behind Boston, where William E. Ladd and Robert E. Gross had pioneered pediatric surgical services.

When one of the surgical fellows replied that next door at the university hospital abortions were being performed on healthy babies, Koop was stirred to write The Right to Live, The Right to Die, setting down his concerns about abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia.

When corticosteroid injection fails, the problem is predictably resolved by a relatively simple surgical procedure ( usually outpatient, under local anesthesia ).

When tumor response has reached > 90 % necrosis surgical intervention is planned.

When the specimen is evaluated, in addition to diagnosis, the amount of uninvolved tissue around the lesion, the surgical margin of the specimen is examined to see if the disease has spread beyond the area biopsied.

When performed together with hysterectomy it has influence on choice of surgical technique as the combined surgery is much less likely to be performed by vaginal hysterectomy.

When the empanada is cut open after deep frying, and doctored with added fillings, it is called empanada operada, a term which refers to a surgical intervention ( operación in Spanish ).

When the fourchette is torn, the bleeding which ensues sometimes requires surgical suturing for containment.

When the surgical instrument went out of use, the cell became known by its present name.

When not utilizing frozen section, the surgeon might have to wait a week or more, before informing the patient if more tumour is left, or if the surgical margin is too narrow.

When the surgical laser needed to destroy the clot is damaged, it becomes obvious there is a saboteur on the mission.

When the manual surgical procedure is performed, some negative side effects may occur, such as that the opening of the iris can be seen by others ( aesthetics ), and the light can fall into the eye through the new hole, creating some visual disturbances.

When the treatment is initiated in the first week of the infant ’ s life, tissue-molding correction can yield a non-surgical otoplasty outcome comparable to that of surgical otoplasty.

When cauda equina syndrome is caused by a herniated disk early surgical decompression is recommended.

When it comes time for the clinic senior staff to vote on allowing the surgical technique to be performed on Samson, Dr. West, having seen Samson with his wife, changes his vote, enabling Dr. Menken to go ahead.

When she expresses curiosity about their conjoinment, Walt explains that they share a liver that is mostly Bob's, and that because surgical separation provides a high risk to Walt, Bob would not consent to the surgery, even though Walt favored it.

When patients are placed on NPO orders prior to surgical general anesthesia, physicians would usually add the exception that patients are allowed a very small drink of water to take with their usual medication.

When Hall was subsequently acquired by 3M Company ( which was then actively developing and marketing surgical instruments ), the 3M Craniotome became widely used in neurosurgery, replacing the Gigli saw ( manually pulled saw wires ) as the primary means of opening the skull for access to the brain for surgical procedures.

When disaggregated, a civil war with intervention on only one side is 156 % longer, while intervention on both sides lengthens the average civil war by an addition 92 %.

When war broke out between Russia and the Ottomans in 1877, Greek popular sentiment rallied to Russia's side, but Greece was too poor, and too concerned of British intervention, to officially enter the war.

When the war between father and sons resumed in Easter 833, Gregory was approached by Lothair, seeking his intervention to bring about reconciliation between Lothair and his father.

When long term pain is relieved by therapeutic intervention, scores on the neurotic triad and anxiety fall, often to normal levels.

When Theodore Roosevelt became President in 1901, he accelerated a foreign policy shift away from isolationism towards foreign intervention which had begun under his predecessor, William McKinley.

When it occurs in early childhood ( before five years of age ), the condition is typically self-limiting and intervention is not required.

When long term pain is relieved by therapeutic intervention, scores on the neurotic triad and anxiety fall, often to normal levels.

When a reporter reminded Wallace that the Kid was depending on the governor's intervention, the governor supposedly smiled and said, " Yes, but I can't see how a fellow like him can expect any clemency from me.

; Sodd's First Law: When a person attempts a task, he or she will be thwarted in that task by the unconscious intervention of some other presence ( animate or inanimate )

When he began his active career it was generally believed that, although some instances of the synthetic production of organic substances had been observed, on the whole organic chemistry remained an analytical science and could not become a constructive one, because the formation of the substances with which it deals required the intervention of vital activity in some shape.

When on 5 May a Russo-Prussian alliance eliminated Swedish hopes for future Russian assistance, and instead posed the threat of a Russian intervention on the Prussian side, Sweden was forced to make peace.

When risks apply mainly to small subpopulations, there is uncertainty at which point intervention is necessary.

When two computers play a game of Go against each other, the ideal is to treat the game in a manner identical to two humans playing while avoiding any intervention from actual humans.

When it is blocked through atherosclerosis, percutaneous intervention with access from the opposite femoral may be needed.

When he and Walker Sloane ( the company ' founder ') attempt to use Anti-Venom to kill Spider-Man, the intervention of a future Spider-Man results in Octavius, Sloan and Anti-Venom being merged and trapped between the two times after they are all accidentally thrown into the time portal at the same time.

When democratization and revolution began to sweep across eastern Europe, he rejected the pleas of eastern European Communist leaders for Soviet intervention and smoothed the path for a ( mostly ) peaceful democratic transformation in the region.

When those techniques did not work, they fabricated evidence against him ; he was arrested in 1983, but soon released on intervention of the clergy and pardoned by an amnesty.

When the cause of sciatica is due to a prolapsed or lumbar disc herniation, 90 % of disc prolapses resolve with no intervention.

When the ANC was elected in 1994 the team's name was not changed to the Proteas like that of other South African sporting teams only because of the intervention of President Nelson Mandela.

When signs of cyanosis first appear, such as on the lips or fingers, intervention should be made within 3 – 5 minutes because a severe hypoxia or severe circulatory failure may have induced the cyanosis.

When in 1870, Beust wanted Austria-Hungary to support France against Prussia, Hungarian Prime Minister Gyula Andrássy was " vigorously opposed ", effectively vetoing Austrian intervention.

When Gustáv Husák became the leader of the KSČ instead of Alexander Dubček in April 1969 after the military intervention of Warsaw Pact armies, his regime acted quickly to " normalize " the country's political situation.