A 4-year-old boy lay on an operating table here a few weeks ago with a tumor that had eaten into his brain and the base of his skull. Standard surgery would involve cutting open his face, leaving an ...

Patients at Memorial Hospital in York, Pa., are undergoing certain laparoscopic surgeries with a single-incision surgical device that leave only a hidden scar, according to a York Dispatch report.

Doctors can now insert operating instruments through a single, approximately 17-millimeter incision in the navel and remove a diseased gallbladder or fix a hernia. The single-incision surgery, a ...

Laparoscopic surgery is a type of “minimally invasive” surgery involving very small incisions (0.5-1cm) as opposed to traditional surgery which uses larger cuts. In a laparoscopic procedure, the ...

CHICAGO— When Patricia Manrique was told she needed her gallbladder removed she immediately thought about the classroom full of children who rely on her to teach them tap and ballet each day. The ...

Scar revision is a treatment that improves the appearance of a scar. Scars are part of how your body heals. Sometimes scars don’t heal the way you want them to. A scar might be large, raised, painful, ...