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 ...

Is open abdominal surgery preferable to laparoscopic surgery for management of small bowel obstruction? The authors of a paper, published in Annals of Surgery, [1] looked at data from 8584 Canadian ...

Laparoscopic surgery is a type of surgery that uses small incisions and a camera to help doctors see inside your body. The camera is called a laparoscope. It is inserted through a small incision in ...

Trainee surgeons learning to conduct laparoscopic (or keyhole) surgery will soon be able to complete their training quicker thanks to an AI-empowered system being developed by researchers at the ...

Previous reports have also described the safety of resecting segments 7 and 8. However, they drew conclusions on smaller cohorts than our present study, and some included segments 1, 4a, 7, and 8, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Robotic surgery for rectal cancer is gaining popularity, but persuasive evidence on long-term oncologic outcomes ...

This editorial will serve as both a technical review for Jayne et al's article published in this issue on the long-term results of the United Kingdom Medical Research Council (UK MRC) Conventional ...

A randomized multi-centre trial comparing the cost-effectiveness of two surgical techniques for the repair of incisional hernias: laparoscopic vs. conventional open repair. The following patients will ...

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 ...

Robotic total gastrectomy for gastric cancer is associated with fewer complications than a conventional laparoscopic approach, according to a retrospective comparative analysis conducted at a single ...