"Keyhole" arthroscopic surgery should rarely be used to repair arthritic knee joints, a panel of international experts says in new clinical guidelines. Clinical trials have shown that keyhole surgery ...

Unlike conventional procedures that require large incisions, minimally invasive surgeries are performed through tiny openings ...

A decade-long study comparing conventional colon cancer surgery with “keyhole” surgery found identical success rates, disproving fears that tumors would be more likely to return if surgeons did not ...

While some of us invest points into intelligence to become doctors, others of us pour those stats into perception and agility to take a different route… Keyhole Surgery is Operation reinvented for ...

Keyhole surgery for heart valve repair may trump robotic surgery, because it is associated with lower rates of subsequent heart flutter and blood transfusions, and a shorter hospital stay, reveals ...

Those who had tumors removed from their livers with keyhole surgery had fewer complications, a better quality of life and similar long-term oncologic outcomes, a new PhD thesis shows. In many patients ...

Using a robotic platform, such as the da Vinci Xi system at QAH, further increases precision. For example, patients with a burst or blocked bowel often need a stoma bag and several operations to ...

BARCELONA, Spain — Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) for the treatment of early lung cancer leads to better in-hospital patient outcomes than open lobectomy without compromising oncologic ...

‘T-E’ is a defect in the part of the skull that separates the brain from the ear. This can cause brain fluid leakage and even meningitis. Now, an innovative endoscopic operation is minimizing the ...

Keyhole surgery seemed like a no-brainer to Jeanine Andersson when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer last year. A hysterectomy was her best option but the 45-year-old orthopedic surgeon had two ...

Keyhole surgery for heart valve repair may trump robotic surgery, because it is associated with lower rates of subsequent heart flutter and blood transfusions, and a shorter hospital stay, reveals ...