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 with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Madrid, Spain - 01 July 2003 - New epidemiological research involving more than 24,000 patients in Scotland* has found that women undergoing common gynaecological procedures involving laparoscopic ...

Keck School surgeons have become the first in the nation to successfully perform a Whipple procedure using hand-access laparoscopy. Dilip Parekh, M.D., chief of tumor and endocrine surgery and ...