Any abdominal procedure poses the risk of enteric contamination of shed blood.

Any medical procedure poses some risks, and that includes surgery performed simply to look good.

In court papers, the Justice Department says the records are needed to show that the banned procedure is almost never medically necessary and "poses serious risks."

But the procedures themselves, both of which involve sticking a needle into the mother's abdomen, pose a small danger to the baby.

While fatalities during defibrillator implantation are extremely rare, the procedure poses an infection rate of about 1 percent.

It left it up to the professional groups to define which procedures posed the highest risks.

He said the procedure posed no risk to the mother or the fetus.

The centers left it up to the professional groups to define the procedures posing the highest risks.

This procedure poses little risk of scarring but can be painful.

Now a new register is to be set up because the first procedure posed too many problems.