If open surgery (which requires a large incision) is done, you will most likely spend several days in the hospital.

You will have less pain after surgery, because there is no large incision to heal.

Open surgery (cutting a large incision in the knee) is sometimes required.

The operation is done through a large incision in the upper abdomen.

They could operate without making large incisions and breaking patients' ribs.

It costs about the same as open surgery, which requires a large incision.

Open surgery involves large incisions, in which the tissues are exposed to the air.

I won't have to have a large incision in my abdomen either.

This involves a large incision in the middle of the belly.

Instead of making a large incision in the eye and removing the lens, doctors could make a tiny one.