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.

Gall bladder removal is commonly done through a few tiny incisions and several laparoscopic tools, but Dr. Jerry Stirman at Rex Hospital can do the procedure with one tiny incision in the belly button ...

A surgical team has completed the first series of operations with a novel surgical system that can remove a diseased gallbladder through a single incision hidden in the belly button. A surgical team ...

Eiji Minami, MD, a surgeon at Overlake Medical Center, performed his 100th da Vinci Single-Site Cholecystectomy on Thursday, July 25. The patient’s gallbladder was removed through one tiny incision in ...

NORTH HAVEN, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Covidien (NYSE: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced interim results of its multicenter, international, prospective SILS™ Port ...

Barton Memorial Hospital general surgeon, Dr. Scott Welker is now performing cholecystectomies (removal of the gallbladder) through a small single incision procedure enabled by the GelPOINT system.

Surgeons specializing in laparoscopic procedures have successfully removed a patient's kidney by performing a unique nephrectomy entirely through the belly button. Surgeons specializing in ...

Crohn's disease in a type of inflammatory bowel disease. It can involve any area of the digestive tract, from the mouth to the anus, but most commonly affects the last area of the small intestine, ...

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 11 (UPI) --A surgical team has completed its first gallbladder surgery using a tool that can remove the diseased organ with the world's smallest recorded incision. The surgery was ...