Researchers have found in a new study that previous ERCP is associated with greater operative difficulty during subsequent ...

Laparoscopic or "minimally invasive" surgery is a specialized technique for performing surgery. In the past, this technique was commonly used for gynecologic surgery and for gall bladder surgery. Over ...

When someone is told they need surgery, one of the first questions that often comes to mind is How painful will it be, and how long will it take to recover? Modern medicine has advanced so much that ...

Researchers have found in a new study that Robot-assisted and laparoscopic surgery demonstrated similar perioperative outcomes and disease-free survival (DFS) in patients undergoing surgery ...

A large-scale global meta-analysis has found that robot-assisted surgery significantly improves patient outcomes in benign ...

Advances in minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery have made it possible to successfully manage many complex hernia mesh ...

A robot has performed laparoscopic surgery on the soft tissue of a pig without the guiding hand of a human -- a significant step in robotics toward fully automated surgery on humans. A robot has ...

Laparoscopic surgery or keyhole surgery is minimally invasive surgery that is associated with several advantages over traditional open surgery. In an open procedure, one large abdominal incision is ...

Laparoscopic surgery is a procedure that is used to examine the inside of the abdomen, without a large incision having to be made. The procedure is commonly used to diagnose and treat conditions of ...