HealthDay News — For male living kidney donors, laparoscopic nephrectomy is associated with a higher risk for subsequent scrotal surgery, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. It’s not exactly R2-D2 performing your surgery. But robotic ...
The perioperative risk is similar and low for both laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SG) and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB); therefore, that risk should not be a deciding factor in the ...
Laparoscopic gastrectomy performed by qualified surgeons yields short-term outcomes similar to those of open surgery.
IMRT-induced acute hepatic toxicity and analysis of the dose-volume effects in gastric cancer patients treated with postoperative radiation. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 ASCO Annual ...
Colostomies have traditionally been done with open surgeries, but laparoscopic surgery offers a less invasive option that can help limit pain, recovery time, and possible complications. A laparoscopic ...
A laparoscopic Heller myotomy is a surgical procedure used to treat achalasia, a condition in which the esophagus doesn't push food and liquid into the stomach effectively and the lower esophageal ...