But the surgical alternatives are unproven procedures that are more expensive and more risky.

More natural appearance after the procedure compared to surgical alternatives.

When these treatment options are exhausted, the patient is left with no viable surgical alternative other than, in limited cases, heart transplantation.

Without a viable surgical alternative, the patient is generally managed with drug therapy, often with significant lifestyle limitations.

Several treatment options currently exist for fibroadenomas: "wait and watch," open surgery and minimally-invasive surgical alternatives.

Minimally-invasive surgical alternatives include biopsy-removal techniques and cryoablation.

There is a surgical alternative, of course, but sadly the medical patent rights are held by a clan we haven't acknowledged for three centuries.

They explored all the surgical alternatives but the prognosis was poor.

PAB followed by later repair is a common surgical alternative when early definitive repair is high-risk.

Other surgical alternatives exist, including corrective lenses implanted in the cornea.