Cholecystectomy (ko-luh-sis-TEK-tuh-mee) is a type of surgery that removes a diseased gallbladder. This surgery is usually done as a laparoscopic surgery. The doctor puts a lighted tube and other ...

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 ...

an open surgery (traditional surgery, involving a large incision ... Recovery from open gallbladder surgery, for example, may take up to six weeks, while recovery from laparoscopic surgery ...

Background Bladder neck transection is one of the most difficult procedures for robot-assisted laparoscopic radical ... resectoscope for making the incision in the bladder neck before initiating ...