A laparoscope is a thin telescope tube (from 5 to 10 mm diameter) with a magnifying glass-like eye piece at one end to which a video camera is attached. Through the camera the view inside the abdomen ...

boxed-textThe Clinical Outcomes of Surgical Therapy Study Group (2004) A comparison of laparoscopically assisted and open colectomy for colon cancer. N Engl J Med 350: 2050–2059. Minimally invasive ...

Doctors at a Hyderabad hospital successfully removed 11 large uterine fibroids weighing 2.7 kg from a 26-year-old woman through laparoscopic surgery, preserving her uterus and future fertility. The ut ...

A study of more than 60,000 women has found that sexual and physical abuse in childhood and adolescence is associated with a greater risk of laparoscopically-confirmed endometriosis diagnosed during ...

In a historic advancement for Indian gynecology, Dr. Surakshith Battina, M.D., a laparoscopic surgeon and fertility specialist at Indigo Womens Center, Chennai, has broken the Guinness World Record by ...