Single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy (SILC) has emerged over the past decade as an evolution of standard multi-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy, seeking to reduce visible scarring and ...

One-port, single-incision laparoscopy is part of the natural development of minimally invasive surgery. Refinement and modification of laparoscopic instrumentation has resulted in a substantial ...

Surgeons have removed a gallbladder through a unique operation requiring only a single incision in the bellybutton rather than the traditional four incisions in the abdomen. Melanie Willhite, a ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Schwartz, MD Key Takeaways You may shower after surgery, but avoid baths, hot tubs, or ...

Researchers at School of Medicine and three hospitals in Chile have demonstrated the safety of a new magnet-driven device that enables surgeons to make fewer incisions while performing laparoscopic ...

I was diagnosed with uterine cancer and had to have my uterus and ovaries completely removed.Since the preoperative tests ...

Gastric cancer surgery has traveled an extraordinary distance since Theodor Billroth performed the first successful gastric resections in the nineteenth century. What was once a brutal open operation, ...

Hackensack Meridian Children's Health pediatric general surgeon Margaret M. McGuire, M.D, FACS,FAAP., was the first surgeon at K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital at Jersey Shore University Medical ...

Robotic surgery has moved into a new phase. The da Vinci system established robotic-assisted surgery across urology, ...