31.   Other patients, he said, could be offered medical treatment or less invasive procedures like balloon angioplasty to open clogged vessels.

32.   Presumably the valve, by eliminating a proportion of these revisions, will reduce the need for invasive procedures and save money.

33.   Robotics is also playing a role in the rapidly growing field of less invasive surgical procedures.

34.   Scully is abducted and suffers invasive procedures.

35.   She died there after months of invasive procedures.

36.   Scanning for tumors, doctors may get more false positives, which could lead them to do unwarranted invasive procedures.

37.   So the patient was transferred to the wards for medical management, which means drugs but no further invasive procedures.

38.   Such products are gaining in popularity because they are used in minimally invasive procedures.

39.   The appendix was removed in a minimally invasive procedure in which tubes with a tiny camera and surgical instruments are threaded into the abdomen.

40.   The award will enable Curis to research and develop minimally invasive surgical procedures to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease and urinary incontinence brought on by stress.