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Neurotomy
Neurotomy is the deliberate cutting or ablation of a nerve to interrupt pain signals, most commonly radiofrequency heating of facet joint nerves for chronic low back pain.
Percutaneous ablation
Percutaneous ablation is a minimally invasive, image-guided treatment delivering energy through skin probes to destroy tumors, with outcomes for small liver cancers similar to surgery.
Photothermal ablation
Photothermal ablation, best known as laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) or stereotactic laser ablation, is a minimally invasive treatment that destroys abnormal tissue with laser-generated heat.
Radiofrequency thermocoagulation
Radiofrequency thermocoagulation is a minimally invasive pain procedure that heats and destroys nerve tissue with an electrode, most often for trigeminal neuralgia and facet joint pain.
Radioguided surgery
Radioguided surgery is a technique in which a radioactive tracer, detected with a handheld gamma probe, guides surgeons in removing tissue, notably for sentinel lymph node biopsy.
Remote surgery
Remote surgery, or telesurgery, is a technique in which a surgeon operates on a patient at another location by sending commands over a network to robotic instruments.
Robot-assisted thoracic surgery
Robot-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) is a minimally invasive technique in which a surgeon at a console operates on chest organs with wristed robotic instruments, mainly for lung resections.
Seldinger technique
The Seldinger technique is a percutaneous access method introduced by Sven Ivar Seldinger in 1953, in which a guidewire passed through a hollow needle allows catheter placement without surgical cut-down.
Simple interrupted stitch
The simple interrupted stitch is a basic surgical suturing technique in which each stitch is a single loop tied off individually, so one failed stitch leaves the others intact.
Steven Schwaitzberg
Steven Schwaitzberg is an American surgeon known for minimally invasive surgery who chaired the Department of Surgery at the University at Buffalo from 2015 until 2026.
Surgical ablation
Surgical ablation is a treatment that destroys targeted tissue, such as liver tumors or arrhythmogenic heart tissue, in place using heat, cold, electric fields, or focused ultrasound.
Surgical anastomosis
A surgical anastomosis is an operative connection between two tubular structures, most often bowel or blood vessels, done by hand-sewn suturing, staplers, or compression implants to restore flow.
Surgical innovation
Surgical innovation: development and evaluation of new surgical techniques, devices, and processes; also a SAGE quarterly journal (ISSN 1553-3506), founded 1994 as Seminars in Laparoscopic Surgery, IDEAL framework, Q3 SCIE Surgery.
Surgical stapling
Surgical stapling uses mechanical staplers to cut and seal tissue, remove part of an organ, and create connections between structures; linear and circular devices are routine in gastrointestinal, thoracic, and vascular surgery.
Sutureless surgery
Sutureless surgery closes wounds or joins tissues without sutures, using tissue adhesives, sealants, or staples, including cyanoacrylate skin glues, fibrin sealants, and sutureless aortic valves.
Therapeutic ultrasound
Therapeutic ultrasound, also called ultrasound therapy, is the use of focused or unfocused acoustic energy to treat tissue rather than image it, spanning low-intensity physiotherapy and fracture repair and high-intensity ablation of tumors and neural targets.
Thoracoscopic surgery
Thoracoscopic surgery is a minimally invasive technique for operating inside the chest through small incisions using a thoracoscope and video display instead of spreading the ribs.
Ultrasound ablation
Ultrasound ablation is a noninvasive method that focuses ultrasound energy inside the body to destroy targeted tissue by heating or cavitation, treating fibroids, prostate disease, tremor, and liver tumors.
Ultrasound surgery
Ultrasound surgery, known as high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) or MR-guided focused ultrasound, destroys targeted internal tissue with focused beams and no incision, routinely treating uterine fibroids and essential tremor.
Video-Assisted Surgery
Video-assisted surgery: surgery aided by a video camera projecting and enlarging the operative image on a screen; also video-assisted resection; basis of VATS, video laparoscopy, and modern minimally invasive surgery.