Virtual surgery

The court noted that it was dealing with a fast spreading and deadly disease requiring radical surgery to prevent it from spreading, and a medication, where the consumer is virtually helpless to protect himself from serious, sometimes permanent, sometimes fatal, iiyuries caused by deleterious... 

More recently, lasers have been introduced into hair transplantation providing several advantages. Erbium and CO2 lasers have been used, with more advantages shown by the erbium laser. It allows for a smaller graft and offers the potential to create closer sites for more aesthetic results. Both techniques provide virtually bloodless surgery and reduce operating times compared with conventional techniques. A relatively new diode laser (1998)... 

Through telemedicine, a doctor can perform surgery himdreds of miles away by guiding a robot in a virtual reality environment. 

Therapeutic modalities which have been applied to pelvic congestion syndrome include psychotherapy, physiotherapy, analgesia alone, pharmacologic ovarian suppression, surgery, and embolization. Critical comparison of treatment outcomes between different therapies is difficult, if not impossible. Not only are a wide variety of therapeutic endpoints described, but diagnostic criteria are different (or not described at all) in virtually every study. 

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