Breaking new ground in what many surgeons consider the next frontier in minimally invasive surgery, surgeons have successfully performed an appendectomy with no abdominal incision. The appendix was ...
Breaking new ground in what many surgeons consider the next frontier in minimally invasive surgery, Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital surgeon Kurt Roberts, M.D., successfully ...
On Wednesday, March 12, 2008, surgeons at UC-San Diego Medical Center performed what is believed to be the country's first removal of a diseased appendix through the mouth. They made one small ...
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - This segment on The Three was paid for and sponsored by St. Joseph Health. Appendix surgery today relies on small incisions rather than large cuts, according to Dr. Lorraine ...
The NHS undertakes 50,000 appendectomies each year. Here, Michele Stanley, 20, a nursery nurse who lives with her mother near Birmingham, talks about her keyhole appendectomy and her surgeon explains ...
Approximately 50,000 appendicectomies are carried out by the NHS each year. Here Jody Ford, 26, a strategic analyst from London, describes an operation to remove his gangrenous appendix, and his ...
Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. Monday, Aug. 25, 2008 | Jeff Scholz, a 42-year-old former Marine, became the first patient in ...