A surgical robot has helped a team at Maidstone Hospital carry out a record number of gallbladder operations in a single day.

Nagoya University researchers and their collaborators have found that minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery significantly reduces blood loss and improves jaundice recovery compared to traditional ...

Biliary atresia (BA) is a life-threatening liver disease of infancy in which early surgery can restore bile flow but rarely ...

The optimal use of robotic-assisted versus laparoscopic approaches for emergency gallbladder surgery is not well-defined. Rates of bile duct injury were similar with both surgical approaches, a large ...

Surgery for gallbladder cancer is generally more successful if the cancer hasn’t spread beyond the gallbladder, if the tumor is small, and if the cancer cells look more like gallbladder cells (less ...

THE significant recent trends in diagnostic and surgical technics related to biliary surgery are presented in this paper, with emphasis on the fact that complicated diagnostic technics are valuable ...

My baby was diagnosed with biliary atresia when he was 2 months old. While Google helped me identify his symptoms, it was a doctor who listened and diagnosed him. He had surgery to repair his bile ...

The decrease in coronary blood flow in laboratory animals was thought by some investigators to be due to coronary constriction mediated by way of the vagus. Others believed that any reduction in ...

Biliary atresia (BA) is a life-threatening liver disease of infancy in which early surgery can restore bile flow but rarely halts long-term liver ...