Background: Patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) often experience preoperative anxiety, which can significantly impact the surgical process and postoperative recovery.

One of the affected parents who identified herself simply as Abosede, the mother of a four-year-old Alamin, told our correspondent that she discovered an incision on his stomach on March 2.

Ultrasound location of ground-glass opacity during thoracoscopic surgery.

Aim To evaluate and compare early corneal wound healing and inflammatory responses after small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) versus femtosecond laser laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK).

These robotic arms hold and manipulate tiny instruments to do the required tasks on the heart or surrounding arteries. A tiny video camera will be inserted into another incision. This will provide a ...

The surgery will take several hours. Family and friends should stay in the waiting room so the surgeon can update them. Your surgeon will make a cut (incision) down the middle of your chest and ...

One of the more common causes of intercostal neuralgia is tissue and nerve irritation after a thoracotomy. Thoracotomies are surgical interventions in which a surgeon opens a person’s chest ...

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Despite orthopedic surgeon pay falling by 3% between 2024 and 2025, overall, the specialty has seen a 25.31% pay hike since 2015. From 2015 to 2025, the inflation rate in the U.S. has risen by 1.7 ...

Political involvement was less intense in people who had experienced lesions connected to the amygdala and anterolateral temporal lobes, which are involved in fear and empathy. The authors note that ...

Chest pain when coughing is a common symptom of many health issues. Although the pain will often clear on its own without treatment, it can sometimes be a sign of a medical emergency. This is ...