revision surgery
Second surgical intervention
Revision surgery is a second operation to correct, improve, or replace the results of a previous surgical procedure.
The term appears most often with joint replacements and cosmetic procedures: She needed revision surgery after her hip implant loosened, The botched nose job required revision surgery.
Also called a revision procedure or simply a revision.
- correctiveDesigned to remedy flaws
- reoperationSubsequent surgical intervention
- orthopedicRelating to bone treatment
- redoPerform once more
- complicationFactor that adds difficulty
surgical complications · reconstructive · spinal · laparoscopic · minimally invasive · reparative · restorative · failure · secondary · knee replacement · functional · microsurgery · go under the knife · endoscopic · craniofacial · urological · therapeutic · gynecological
- surgeriesappendectomy, hysterectomy, mastectomy, cholecystectomy, tonsillectomy
- bariatricsgastric bypass, lap band, bariatric surgeon, bariatric, morbid obesity
- breast surgerybreast augmentation, breast reconstruction, breast reduction, breast lift, mastectomy
- eye surgeryLASIK, PRK, vitrectomy, corneal transplant, blepharoplasty
- joint replacementhip replacement, knee replacement, shoulder replacement, total knee, titanium implant
- surgical complicationsbleeding, infection, hemorrhage, wound infection, bruising