News tagged with conventional surgery


No scars: New obesity surgery goes through mouth (AP)

No scars: New obesity surgery goes through mouth

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created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Doctors are testing a new kind of obesity surgery without any cuts through the abdomen, snaking a tube as thick as a garden hose down the throat to snap staples into the stomach. The experimental, ...





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Mayo Clinic tests non-incision, endoscopic ulcer repair

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created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mayo Clinic surgical researchers are reporting a 93 percent success rate in recent animal tests of endoscopic repair of perforated ulcers. The goal is to advance the use of an endoscope -- which allows access to organs through ...


MR arthrography is more accurate than MR in diagnosing shoulder tears

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created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

MR arthrography of the shoulder allows physicians to better identify tears and provides patients with an accurate diagnosis to determine whether or not surgery is needed, according to a study performed at Neuroskeletal Imaging ...


Surgery remans an option for advanced lung cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

In recent years, oncologists have debated whether patients with a certain type of advanced lung cancer would benefit from surgery.


Surviving lung cancer: New technique boasts high cure rates, offers hope in place of surgery

Surviving lung cancer: New technique boasts high cure rates, offers hope in place of surgery

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Countless people have heard the phrase, "You have lung cancer," but only 50 can say they've completed a new treatment at Temple University that doubles their chances of surviving the deadly disease — and without ...


Surgery for severe obesity saves lives

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created Aug 23, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

An extensive swedish study from the Sahlgrenska Academy has established that surgery reduces premature death in patients with severe obesity. A long-term follow up has shown that mortality is significantly lower among patients ...


Robot assisted surgery more accurate than conventional surgery

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created Feb 08, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A new study from Imperial College London shows that robot assisted knee surgery is significantly more accurate than conventional surgery.


Newer, minimally invasive surgery to treat sciatica does not result in better outcomes

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A comparison of surgical treatments for sciatica finds that the minimally invasive procedure known as tubular diskectomy does not provide a significant difference in improvement of functional disability compared to the more ...


'A sad case': She chose herbals over surgery

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created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (12) | comments 8

(AP) -- Leslee Flasch worked in a hospice. She had seen cancer treatments fail. Now doctors were saying she needed her colon removed to treat her rectal cancer. Barely 50 years old, she would have to wear a colostomy bag ...


Total Laparoscopic Aortic Surgery Is Feasible, Shows Satisfactory Results

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created Jun 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Recently the use of laparoscopy for vascular procedures has been limited by difficulties in aortic exposure and anastomosis techniques, as well as the concurrent competitive progress of endovascular surgery. For aortic repair, ...


Virtual reality: Keyhole surgeons training could help meet European working time directives

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created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Trainee surgeons who add virtual reality (VR) training to standard 'apprenticeship' training in key-hole surgery learn more quickly, work with greater accuracy and have less errors than those with no VR training, and perform ...



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