While surgery is possible, it is often very difficult due to the invasiveness of the mass in surrounding tissue including the arteries, the esophagus, and windpipe.

While recovering from this surgery in the infirmary, he was moved to write the words of Invictus.

While laparoscopic surgery is clearly advantageous in terms of patient outcomes, the procedure is more difficult from the surgeon's perspective when compared to traditional, open surgery:

While Section 4 has never been invoked, Section 3 has been invoked three times: on July 13, 1985 when Ronald Reagan underwent surgery to remove cancerous polyps from his colon, and twice more on June 29, 2002 and July 21, 2007 when George W. Bush underwent colonoscopy procedures requiring sedation.

While many with BDD seek cosmetic surgery, the procedures do not treat BDD, and can ultimately worsen the problem.

While roughly similar to medicinal interventions in treating pain, the efficacy of surgery is especially significant in treating infertility.

While outcomes are generally good, certain factors can contribute to poorer results that have little to do with nerves, anatomy, or surgery type.

While surgery still remains as the standard for cystic echinococcosis treatment, there have been a number of studies that suggest that PAIR with chemotherapy is more effective than surgery in terms of disease recurrence, and morbidity and mortality.

While some ancient authors make Diodotus Tryphon responsible for the death of the king, others write that he died during a surgery.

While Bircher is often considered the inventor of arthroscopy of the knee, the Japanese surgeon Masaki Watanabe, MD receives primary credit for using arthroscopy for interventional surgery.

While surgery and antibiotics may successfully treat pasteurellosis, they will not treat myxomatosis or RHD.

While a surgeon in Philadelphia, Koop performed groundbreaking surgical procedures on conjoined twins, invented techniques which today are commonly used for infant surgery, and saved the lives of countless children who otherwise might have been allowed to die.

While immobilization and surgery may facilitate healing, a fracture ultimately heals through physiological processes.

While previous studies of multimodality therapy ( combinations of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy ) gave mixed results, the Intergroup 0116 ( SWOG 9008 ) study showed a survival benefit to the combination of chemotherapy and radiation therapy in patients with nonmetastatic, completely resected gastric cancer.

While there, Money was involved with the Sexual Behaviors Unit, which ran studies on sex reassignment surgery.

While episiotomy is employed to obviate issues such as post-partum pain, incontinence and sexual dysfunction, some studies suggest that in actuality, episiotomy surgery itself can cause all of these problems.

While there, he underwent twenty hours of surgery to fix an aortic dissection, a rare condition.

While lying in the sun on May 30, 2002, Barker experienced a stroke, and was hospitalized ; six weeks later, on July 11, Barker underwent prostate surgery.

While operating theaters are no longer used for surgery, some still exist.

While president of the Quorum of the Twelve, he had major health problems for the remainder of his life, including a heart attack, broken ribs from a fall at general conference, heart bypass surgery, bleeding ulcers, and a kidney failure that revived.

While no treatment is risk free, the risks of interventional procedures are far lower than the risks of open surgery, and are a major advance in medicine for patients.

While a few doctors will prescribe decompression surgery, most will not.

While there is no cure for endometriosis, in many people menopause ( natural or surgical ) will abate the process.

While surgical removal of cysts was the treatment of choice for the previous two types of echinococcosis, chemotherapy is the recommended treatment approach for polycystic echinococcosis.

While evidence supporting such conservative, noninvasive treatments is weak, today, conservative management of scoliosis can be regarded as being evidence-based ; no substantial evidence has been found to support surgical intervention.

While appendectomy is a standard surgical procedure, its cost has been found to vary considerably in the United States.

While the patient is subdued under general anesthesia, long thin scissors and scalpels are used to remove the nodules, or CO2 surgical lasers might be used which are very effective in such cases.

While modern surgical procedures cause far less discomfort to the animal than more primitive methods, there is minor postoperative discomfort when the animal is in recovery.

While filming an obstacle course scene for the movie, D ' Onofrio injured his knee, compounded by the excessive weight, which required surgical reconstruction.

While in New York, he met David Rockefeller, who desired to endow an institute where Penfield could study the surgical treatment of epilepsy.

While Arigó performed his procedures using kitchen knives in improvised settings, Omura reports that the clamping of blood vessels and the closing of the surgical wounds are now performed by licensed surgeons or licensed nurses.

While Wolverine's mutant healing factor allowed his entire skeleton to be laced with adamantium, as well as preventing the adamantium from poisoning his blood, the details of Bullseye's surgical procedure ( s ) and how they prevent these complications have not been disclosed.

While they are extremely diligent in using their surgical skills among themselves they are also careful to share them among the people around their homes, possibly in a bid to make sure that when the torch-bearing mob comes along to kill the latest freak of science the resident Igor will be spared.

While many general surgeons are actively involved in treating patients with malignant neoplasms, the designation of " surgical oncologist " is generally reserved for those surgeons who have completed one of the approved fellowship programs.

While this task must have been made more difficult by New Zealand's relative remoteness and small population, the Greenlane Hospital surgical team quickly achieved an international reputation for innovative excellence.

While equipment was always a critical concern, it was the skill level of the surgeons that most concerned the surgical consultants of the Sixth and Eighth U. S. Armies in SWPA.

While editor of The Broadway Journal, Poe printed a letter from a New York physician named Dr. A. Sidney Doane which recounted a surgical operation performed while a patient was " in a magnetic sleep "; the letter served as inspiration for Poe's tale.

While Troy appears in the show's opening credits, he rarely makes a physical appearance in the series — and when he does his face is obscured ( for example, via a surgical mask or shadows ).

While chemotherapy, radiation therapy, curettage and liquid nitrogen have been effective in some cases of ameloblastoma, surgical resection or enucleation remains the most definitive treatment for this condition.

While infectious diseases such as HIV exact a great health toll in low-income countries, surgical conditions including trauma from road traffic crashes or other injuries, malignancies, soft tissue infections, congenital anomalies, and complications of childbirth also contribute significantly to the burden of disease and impede economic development.

While apparently smaller fires go unreported, surgical flash fires have led to burn injuries and fatalities.

While others have registered larger total weight loss, some were assisted by bariatric surgery and / or cosmetic procedures to remove excess tissues, and all were over longer periods of time ; 19 months ( with surgical assistance ) in the case of Guinness's record holder, Michael Hebranko, and 16 months for Jon Brower Minnoch ( said to be the heaviest man ever recorded ).

While stopped in a field, Devon insists that since the two are " best friends ", she can show him her surgical scar on her chest.