Laparoscopic surgery, also referred to as minimally invasive surgery (MIS) or laparoscopy, is a surgical technique in which a thin, camera-equipped surgical device is inserted into the abdomen or ...

aDivision of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea bDivision of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, ...

The da Vinci model was introduced in the year 2000. The early de Vinci model was the first to be approved for general laparoscopic surgery (minimally invasive surgery of the abdomen or pelvis with the ...

The data in Table 2 showed patients undergoing RACS had a significantly longer median surgery duration (218.5 minutes vs. 165 minutes, p < 0.0001) and greater median blood loss (100 mL vs. 50 mL, p < ...

This is different to a sentinel lymph node biopsy. If the biopsy shows the lymph nodes have cancer cells in them, you might have surgery to remove them. This is called a lymph node dissection or ...