Keyhole surgery is a technique that allows the surgeon to perform a procedure inside the body through a small incision in the skin. Some people refer to keyhole surgery as laparoscopic surgery, as it ...

In conventional surgery, doctors remove a cancerous colon segment through an eight-inch cut down the abdomen. In keyhole, or laparascopic, surgery, they operate with a laparoscope, or tiny video ...

Keyhole surgery seemed like a no-brainer to Jeanine Andersson when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer last year. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

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 ...

BARCELONA, Spain — Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) for the treatment of early lung cancer leads to better in-hospital patient outcomes than open lobectomy without compromising oncologic ...

New research has found no evidence of a difference between recovery time and complications when comparing standard and keyhole surgical incisions for the treatment of oesophageal cancer (cancer of the ...