Laparoscopic surgery is a type of “minimally invasive” surgery involving very small incisions (0.5-1cm) as opposed to traditional surgery which uses larger cuts. In a laparoscopic procedure, the ...

A medical team at Al-Nadeem Government Hospital in Madaba on Wednesday performed the first laparoscopic surgery to remove a kidney from a patient with a large tumor. "This qualitative operation is ...

Cholecystectomy (ko-luh-sis-TEK-tuh-mee) is a type of surgery that removes a diseased gallbladder. This surgery is usually done as a laparoscopic surgery. The doctor puts a lighted tube and other ...

Researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi's Advanced Microfluidics and Microdevices Laboratory (AMMLab) have developed an innovative ...

Women report less pain after a laparoscopic procedure than the abdominal ... varies and is generally greatest with abdominal incisions, because the abdominal muscles must be stretched out of ...

In a research article published in JAMA Surgery, Brian Fry, M.D., M.S., a general surgery resident at University of Michigan Health and colleagues compared hernia recurrence rates after undergoing ...

Robotic and laparoscopic hernia repairs use similarly ... recovery times were greatly reduced due to much smaller incisions, and the inferior initial outcomes as a surgeon worked through their ...

Kilifi county plans to procure laparoscopic machines ... Laparoscopy or keyhole surgery is a procedure where small incisions are made on the body unlike the open surgery, where the incision ...