Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Laparoscopy may have some advantages over laparotomy for ovarian cancer. Results of this review are limited and ...

The routine use of diagnostic laparoscopy for young women who present with right iliac fossa pain reduces the rate of negative appendectomy, according to a new study. However, the implementation of ...

Laparoscopy and laparoscopic ultrasound have been validated previously as staging tools for pancreatic cancer. The aim of this study was to identify if assessment of vascular involvement with ...

Tubal sterilization can be performed within 72 hrs of completion of a vaginal delivery. If it is performed at other times it is called interval sterilization. The actual procedure is done in an ...

Laparoscopic surgery also known as Minimally Invasive Surgery or Keyhole surgery is one of the miracles of modern medicine. Instead of cutting open a patient completely, this procedure involves making ...

This is similar to the vaginal hysterectomy procedure described above, but to help with better dissection of the abdominal tissues laparoscopy is used. A laparoscope is a thin cylindrical telescope ...

Phase Ib study of ipilimumab alone or in combination with allogeneic pancreatic tumor cells transfected with a GM-CSF gene (vaccine) in pancreatic cancer. Background: Standard laparoscopy for ...

Improved devices and growing skill among surgeons is allowing the use of laparoscopy to excise cancers and even perform hysterectomies. Diagnostic laparoscopy is a procedure performed under general ...