The results of a small surgical trial demonstrate that elective transvaginal cholecystectomies are safe and suggest that the evolution of natural orifice surgery is constrained only by the development ...

Rates of bile duct injury a year after gallbladder removal surgery were lower with laparoscopic procedures than robotic-assisted ones, a retrospective study of Medicare beneficiaries found.

UCLA researchers have discovered an optimal way to image the bile ducts during gallbladder removal surgeries using a tested and safe dye and a real-time near-infrared florescence laparoscopic camera, ...

BALTIMORE – After less than 30 minutes of surgery, Dr. Gina Massoglia removed Caren Eckwerth’s gallbladder by squeezing it out through a tiny incision in her belly button. A colleague followed with ...

Laparoscopy was one of the most significant surgical advances of the twentieth century and laparoscopic cholecystectomy has been recognized since 1987, when Phillipe Mouret performed the first ...

Kolkata: Surgeons in the city are divided over the findings of a study by US doctors that has suggested a higher risk of bile duct injury in robot-assisted gall bladder surgery than the conventional ...

So you think that little video camera in your closet is a marvel of miniaturization? Imagine trying to stick it through your navel. In what has become common procedure, doctors are performing surgery ...

Removal of gallbladder can cause trouble with fat digestion, constipation or even diarrhoea, but these are all temporary side ...

Santiago Horgan, MD, chief of minimally invasive surgery at UC San Diego Medical Center, who performed some of the gallbladder surgeries, agrees that the trial has provided the necessary evidence. "We ...