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Plastic Surgery , Plastic surgery is the surgical repair of skin defects and deformities, the removal of skin tumors, and surgical reconstruction. Increasingly, howeve… Telesurgery , Telesurgery, also called remote surgery, is performed by a surgeon at a site removed from the patient. Surgical tasks are directly performed by a rob… Bariatric Surgery , Definition
Bariatric surgery promotes weight loss by changing the digestive system's anatomy, limiting the amount of food that can be eaten and diges… General Surgery , Definition
General surgery is the treatment of injury, deformity, and disease using operative procedures.
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General surgery is frequently perfo… Fetal Surgery , Fetal surgery allows doctors to treat certain abnormalities of the fetus that might otherwise be fatal or cause significant problems if permitted to… Endoscopic Sinus Surgery , Definition
Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that opens up sinus air cells and sinus ostia (openi…
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