It has been used to relieve nasal obstruction, but side-effects include removal of nerves that would report the passage of air.

The first treatments of prostate cancer were surgeries to relieve urinary obstruction.

Photoablative laser therapy is used in advanced colorectal cancers to relieve obstruction and to control bleeding.

Palliative, endoscopic-placed stents to relieve obstruction.

Percutaneous nephrostomy or ureteral stent placement may be indicated to relieve obstruction caused by a stone.

They are used to relieve coughing and nasal obstruction.

The surgeon can core out the enlarged prostate and relieve obstruction.

In other words, a laminectomy procedure surgically relieves obstruction on the nerve where the nerve is located.

Radical prostatectomy is sometimes used to relieve urinary obstruction in men with more advanced (stage III) cancer.

Plastic stents can also be used to relieve obstruction of the Common bile duct at ERCP.