Laparoscopic gallbladder surgery (cholecystectomy ... uses a video monitor as a guide while inserting surgical instruments into the other incisions to remove your gallbladder. Before the surgeon ...

The New York patient, 66, had her gallbladder removed on March 21 and is recovering well, said her surgeon, Dr. Marc Bessler, the director of laparoscopic surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia ...

Over the past few years, open surgery for gallbladder removal has been largely replaced by laparoscopic techniques. In laparoscopic surgery, surgeons create four small incisions to insert a camera ...