Laparoscopic wedge resection is recommended for GISTs larger than 4 cm due to higher complete resection rates. Endoscopic resection offers faster recovery and fewer postoperative symptoms, despite ...

Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) of colorectal cancer has become more popular in the past two decades. Laparoscopic colectomy has been accepted as an alternative standard approach in colon cancer, ...

Unlike conventional procedures that require large incisions, minimally invasive surgeries are performed through tiny openings ...

“[This] study suggests that endoscopic clipping is not necessary to prevent post-polypectomy bleeding after [endoscopic mucosal resection] of large serrated polyps,” Seth D. Crockett, MD, MPH, ...

Researchers from Switzerland evaluated the effect of standardized coffee intake on postoperative bowel movement after elective laparoscopic colorectal resection. This was a prospective randomized ...

Is open abdominal surgery preferable to laparoscopic surgery for management of small bowel obstruction? The authors of a paper, published in Annals of Surgery, [1] looked at data from 8584 Canadian ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Laparoscopic surgery led to a substantial reduction in functional recovery time and postoperative hospital stay compared with open surgery in patients undergoing parenchyma-preserving resection of ...