Popularity of 'keyhole' surgeries expected to grow Nelson and other experts predict the laparoscopic surgery now will be performed more frequently.

New epidemiological research involving more than 24,000 patients in Scotland* has found that women undergoing common gynaecological procedures involving laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery are just as ...

Laparoscopy ('keyhole surgery') for colorectal cancer could be the future treatment of choice after results of a study from Hong Kong in this week's issue of The Lancet show how it is associated ...

Laparoscopic or "keyhole" surgery is a safe, effective way of removing bowel tumors and should be offered to all patients undergoing surgery for colorectal cancer, according to new research.

"Laparoscopy will increasingly replace open surgery. Ten years after we started, other countries have followed. American hospitals are still opposed to the surgical method for preserving liver tissue.

Laparoscopy is also known of as minimally invasive or keyhole surgery. The surgeon uses an instrument called a laparoscope, which is a thin tube with a light and camera attached, to look inside ...

Laparoscopy Keyhole surgery has a major advantage over 'normal' surgery, namely that it is less invasive for the patient. However, the disadvantage is that this type of surgery is more difficult ...

Laparoscopic, or keyhole, surgery is increasingly chosen by men having a cancerous prostate removed. And often it involves the highly marketed da Vinci robotics system. Da Vinci's popularity has ...

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 ...

A laparoscopy is a common medical procedure -- also known as keyhole surgery -- in which a surgeon makes a small cut below the belly button and inserts a tiny camera tube that allows doctors to ...