News articles tagged with 'incision'
Surgery without external scars is gaining traction
— 11 Mar 2011 16:16 | HealthWhen Patricia Manrique was told she needed her gallbladder removed she immediately thought about the classroom full of children who rely on her to teach them tap and ballet each day.…
Minimally invasive technique appears helpful to reanimate facial paralysis
— 18 Jan 2011 17:23 | HealthA procedure involving only one small incision and no major modifications to bone can be used to transpose a tendon and appears helpful in reanimating the lower face after paralysis,…
Laser system developed at Stanford shows promise for cataract surgery
— 18 Nov 2010 11:42 | HealthImagine trying to cut by hand a perfect circle roughly one-third the size of a penny. Then consider that instead of a sheet of paper, you're working with a scalpel and a thin, elastic,…
New robotic head and neck cancer surgery preserves speech, without scarring
— 8 Sep 2010 11:33 | HealthAn incisionless robotic surgical procedure is offering patients a new option to remove certain head and neck cancer tumours without visible scarring, while preserving speech and the…
First US surgery to compare NOTES vs. laparoscopy
— 8 Jul 2010 09:36 | HealthAs part of the only U.S. prospective multicentre clinical trial to compare natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) to laparoscopy, surgeons at the University of California,…
Robots preclude neck incision for thyroid surgery
— 7 Jul 2010 12:57 | HealthRobots that revolutionised gynaecologic and urologic surgery in the past decade now offer the option of removing at least a portion of their diseased thyroid gland without the hallmark…
New procedure cuts arrhythmia, recovery time
— 4 Feb 2010 11:14 | HealthA surgeon and an electrophysiologist in the Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Centre last week worked together to perform a novel, minimally-invasive procedure to treat a common…
Loyola surgeon uses novel technique to perform complicated colon surgery
— 2 Feb 2010 14:46 | HealthJanet Bunch of Chicago had just experienced another 'excruciating' bout of diverticulitis, an inflammation of the pockets in the lining of the colon…
Tulane University surgeon pioneers 'scarless' thyroid surgery
— 25 Nov 2009 10:56 | HealthTulane University School of Medicine surgeon Dr Emad Kandil is one of the first in the country to perform a new form of endoscopic surgery that uses a small incision under the arm to…
The decision about the incision: Is midline or transverse better for abdominal surgery?
— 1 Jul 2009 02:12 | HealthAn unusual study at the Department of Surgery at Heidelberg University Hospital examined for the first time whether the incision technique used in major abdominal surgery had an effect…