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Prostate biopsy is a procedure in which small hollow needle-core samples are removed from a man’s prostate gland to be examined microscopically for the presence of cancer.

Prostatectomy (from the Greek prostates, “prostate”, combined with the suffix -ektomē, “excision”) as a medical term refers to the surgical removal of all or part of the prostate gland.

Psychosurgery, also called neurosurgery for mental disorder (NMD), is the neurosurgical treatment of mental disorder.

Punctoplasty is a surgical procedure to restore proper drainage of tears when the lacrimal punctum (puncta lacrimalia) becomes blocked in one or both eyes.

Pyeloplasty is the surgical reconstruction or revision of the renal pelvis to drain and decompress the kidney.