Advances in microtechnology have impacted on the orthopedic surgeon’s ability to perform knifeless, bloodless, ultra-precise minimally invasive spine surgery. Many surgeons seek strategies that ...

A "smart" needle with an embedded camera is helping doctors perform safer brain surgery. The device was developed by researchers at the University of Adelaide in South Australia and uses a tiny ...

We then drilled a small hole in their skull and inserted the needle so that it was adjacent to the blood vessel. In all three cases, the needle was able to detect that it was indeed next to the blood ...

A tiny mechanical wrist can make surgical incisions the diameter of a sewing needle and then bend inside your body by as much as 90 degrees, opening new doors in needlescopic surgery.

A biopsy needle that includes a tiny camera the size of a human hair is set to make brain surgery safer, allowing surgeons to avoid potentially fatal damage to blood vessels.

Needlescopic surgery, also known as mico-laproscopy, uses instruments about the size of a sewing needle inserted through incisions that are typically 5-10mm long. It causes less pain to patients, ...

China has resumed controversial brain surgery intended to cure drug users of their addiction, ... Brain needle surgery is back. Peter Goff + FOLLOW. Published: 12:00am, 4 Dec 2005. Why you can ...