What Doctors Don't Tell YouKeyhole surgery can trigger gallbladder cancer or cause it to recur, researchers have found. The procedure, known as laparoscopic cholecystectomy, which involves the removal of the gall bladder, c ...
New research from the UK has prompted calls for a curtailment of laparoscopic hernia repairs, in favour of general surgery. ...
Keyhole surgery, the gee-whiz technology that has transformed surgery, still doesn’t work as well as the old-fashioned conventional surgery for hernia.
Q-Is there anything, apart from conventional antifungals, that can cure persistent fungal nail infection? I have suffered from this condition for several years and nothing seems to get rid of it c ...
Many surgeons believe that some organs in the body really aren’t necessary, so when things go wrong, they can be removed with no harm done. A common example of this is a cholecystectomy - surgical removal of the gallbladder. The gallbladder...
We've been trying to make gallstones disappear for several thousand years, yet the magic act still hasn't been perfected. Although gallstones can occur at any time, the average "sufferer" is betwe ...
We know where they come from, we have a good idea what to do about many of them, yet gallstones are one of medicine's great travesties. Nearly one in every seven adults or 20 million Americans su ...
Recently, minimally invasive, or keyhole, surgery (laparoscopy see ... ...
Surgeons are rushing in to try their hand at minimally invasive operations without proper training or understanding of when they are appropriate. ...
