With the LINX procedure, your doctor uses a laparoscope to put a ring of titanium beads around the outside of your lower esophagus. This strengthens the valve between the esophagus and stomach.

The parallel and close proximity of the right-hand and left-hand instrument shafts of standard laparoscopic instruments through a solitary port results in crowding of the laparoscope and ...

In most cases, this involves laparoscopic retrieval in which several small incisions are strategically made to accommodate a narrow, lighted scope (called a laparoscope) and specialized tools that can ...

Gallstones are hard, solid deposits that form in the gallbladder, a pear-shaped organ in the upper right abdomen beneath the liver. When you eat, the gallbladder stores bile from the liver and ...

A 10-millimeter incision was made on the left side of the navel, and an appropriately sized trocar was inserted. After establishing pneumoperitoneum, the laparoscope was introduced. We then made a ...

In a laparoscopic hysterectomy, a laparoscope (thin tube with a small camera) is inserted into your abdomen through a small incision. Then, through additional small incisions the uterus is removed ...

A fibroid breaking down (degenerating) may cause severe bleeding in rare cases. Laparoscope radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a procedure that uses heat to destroy fibroid tissue and significantly ...