| Ewart's procedure | Elevation of the larynx between the thumb and forefinger to elicit tracheal tugging. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| two-step procedure | <surgery> When surgical biopsy and breast surgery are performed in two separate surgeries. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Z procedure | Surgery to elongate a contracted scar or to rotate tension 90 |
| Konno procedure | A method of repairing congenital tunnel-type subaortic stenosis and narrowing of the left ventricular-aortic junction by aortoventriculoplasty and prosthetic valve replacement. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Konno-Rastan procedure | An aortoventriculoplasty used to enlarge the aortic annular size, especially when subaortic fibromuscular stenosis is present. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fontan procedure | <procedure> A procedure in which total right atrial or total caval blood flow is channeled directly into the pulmonary artery or into a small right ventricle that serves only as a conduit. The principal congenital malformations for which this operation is useful are tricuspid atresia and single ventricle with pulmonary stenosis. (08 Mar 2000) |
| loop electrocautery excision procedure | Electrocautery excisional biopsy of abnormal cervical tissue. (05 Mar 2000) |