1.   More and more heart patients are surviving thanks to improved surgical techniques.

2.   More patients are surviving thanks to improved surgical techniques.

3.   Surgical techniques are constantly being refined.

4.   He pioneered the surgical technique called frontal lobotomy.

5.   Most of these studies, however, comprised patient populations treated by varying surgical techniques, in the period before our study.

6.   Some reported postoperative symptoms are related to surgical technique, and seem able to be reduced by slight modifications, which probably also lessen the risk of wrap disruption.

7.   Current surgical techniques also involve reducing the cornea curvature in a bid to correct short-sightedness.

8.   And it is a surgical technique easily modified to circumvent the ban, they said.