"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 ...

The use of keyhole surgery to repair ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm is both clinically and cost effective and should be adopted more widely, concludes a randomised trial published by The BMJ today ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kolkata doctors have successfully treated a large and complex incisional hernia in a 45-year-old woman from Agartala in ...

U.K. engineers have developed a miniature keyhole surgery robot arm, which is able to carry out a range of minimally invasive laparoscopic operations including hernia repairs, colorectal operations, ...

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.

Multi-institution collaboration is the first in the western U.S. to perform completely laparoscopic repair of open spina bifida LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gilda Giron was just 13 weeks pregnant ...

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 ...

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 ...