Recently, this procedure is performed through a single incision in the patient's umbilicus.
The modified Maze procedure involves a single incision in the left atrium.
While you are under general anesthesia, the surgeon will make a single incision across one side of the chest.
For open hernia repair surgery, a single long incision is made in the groin.
Although Maura had not yet made a single incision, she could already envision the damage inside the cranium.
In open surgery, the surgeon makes a single large incision in the back of the leg.
The resulting 'shadow photograph', as the images were then known, allowed doctors to remove the needle with a single incision.
These powers are precise enough to allow her to perform a complete murder autopsy without making a single incision, or even touching the body.
The single small incision does not require stitches and there is very little scarring.
With core needle biopsy a relatively large sample can be removed through a small single incision in the skin.