In a groundbreaking 13-year study, Pacific Neuroscience Institute neurosurgical and otolaryngology surgical teams demonstrated outstanding outcomes with minimally invasive keyhole surgery for the most ...

How can camera images be used during minimally invasive surgeries to assess whether the operated organ is sufficiently perfused with blood? Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and ...

New research has found no evidence of a difference between recovery time and complications when comparing standard and keyhole surgical incisions for the treatment of esophageal cancer (cancer of the ...

Andrew Wood, 61, was told he had a brain aneurysm - a swelling in a blood vessel in the brain - and faced a craniotomy, but ...

In conventional surgery, doctors remove a cancerous colon segment through an eight-inch cut down the abdomen. In keyhole, or laparascopic, surgery, they operate with a laparoscope, or tiny video ...

PHILADELPHIA -- A deeper neuromuscular block (NMB) facilitated laparoscopic surgery without having an effect on intraoperative safety and postoperative outcomes, according to a multicenter randomized ...

A robot has successfully performed "keyhole" intestinal surgery on pigs without any aid from humans, according to a study from John Hopkins University (published in Science Robotics). What's more, the ...