This study, based on information contained in two Swedish databases, provides information on the preferred timing of cholecystectomy in morbidly obese patients undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.

The DEXTER® Robotic Surgery System is a soft tissue surgical robot that uniquely simplifies operations to make the benefits of wristed robotics accessible in any operating room (OR). DEXTER comes with ...

October 11, 2007 (New Orleans) — Laparoscopic cholecystectomy performed on slightly younger, healthier patients in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) is safe and significantly less costly than in ...

Abdominal pain associated with gallstones does not always subside after the gallbladder is removed (cholecystectomy). Even five years after surgery, one-third of patients still experience persisting ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for Distalmotion’s DEXTER robotic surgery system to be used in adult cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal) procedures, marking ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At 5 years, 62.8% of patients in the usual care group were pain free vs. 61.2% in the restrictive care group.

Laparoscopy was one of the most significant surgical advances of the twentieth century and laparoscopic cholecystectomy has been recognized since 1987, when Phillipe Mouret performed the first ...

Acknowledging laparoscopic cholecystectomy as a gold standard for gallbladder removal in 1992 has started an array of trials to improve laparoscopic technique. Another issue was amelioration of the ...

Phantom gallbladder pain is commonly due to post-cholecystectomy syndrome. It occurs when symptoms around the gallbladder mimic cholecystitis pain but stem from a different cause. Post-cholecystectomy ...