News tagged with minimally invasive surgery


Insertable robot offers new approach to minimally invasive surgery

A collaboration between Columbia Professors Peter Allen (Computer Science, Columbia Engineering), Nabil Simaan (formerly Mechanical Engineering at Columbia, now at Vanderbilt) and Dennis Fowler (Surgery, Columbia ...

Surgery created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Robotic surgery with one small incision

On Tuesday (Dec. 20), Dr. Santiago Horgan, chief of minimally invasive surgery at UC San Diego Health System, was the first surgeon in the United States to remove a diseased gallbladder through a patient’s belly button ...

Other created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pelvic-repair device enables minimally invasive trauma surgery

A device developed by UT Southwestern Medical Center surgeons offers precise repair of pelvic fractures with minimal postsurgical scarring, pain and infection risk and is available for broad adoption by the nation's 200 level ...

Other created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0