Many of us are familiar with arthroscopic surgery. These are common surgeries performed in the knee, shoulder, or hip where a surgeon places a thin tube with a small camera at the end, also simply ...

An unusual study at the Department of Surgery at Heidelberg University Hospital examined for the first time whether the incision technique used in major abdominal surgery had an effect on the results.

A cataract is the clouding of the natural lens inside the eye. Traditional cataract surgery was performed through an incision around 12 mm or 0.5 inch wide. Before surgical microscopes and fine ...

GW Hospital is proud to be the first adult-care hospital in the metropolitan Washington–Northern Virginia region to add MRI-guided focused ultrasound to its intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging ...

A total knee replacement involves removing diseased bone and shaping the remaining bone to fit the knee implant, which is constructed one component at a time to mimic a natural knee joint. The ...

SHREVEPORT, La -- Robotic-assisted surgery is laparoscopic surgery using robotic instruments. The robot does not perform the operation. Rather, the surgeon is in full control, using robotic arms that ...

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 ...

Keyhole surgery is a technique that allows the surgeon to perform a procedure inside the body through a small incision in the skin. Some people refer to keyhole surgery as laparoscopic surgery, as it ...