Laparoscopic staging may detect more advanced cervical cancer
1. After clinical staging, one-third of cervical cancer patients were upstaged (found to have nodal or peritoneal spread) on laparoscopy. ...
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Scripted mental practice improves advanced laparoscopic surgery performance
1. Scripted mental practice training improved jejunojejunostomy completion, an advanced bariatric laparoscopic procedure, even when faced with a crisis scenario. ...
Laparoscopic colon cancer management may be beneficial in elderly
1. In older patients with colorectal cancer, laparoscopic surgery (LAP) resulted in overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS), and cancer-specific ...
Post-operative pain similar in robotic and conventional laparoscopy for gynecologic procedures
1. No difference in post-operative pain or its effect on quality of life was observed when comparing robotic laparoscopy with ...
Patient-controlled pain meds superior to epidural after laparoscopic surgery
1. When compared to epidural pain control, patient controlled analgesia was associated with better outcomes and pain control in laparoscopic ...
Wide variation identified in use of laparoscopy across American hospitals
1. Researchers found significant variation in utilization of minimally invasive surgery in US hospitals. 2. Urban and not-for-profit hospitals were ...
Robotic-assisted colectomy may provide minimal benefit compared to laparoscopic
Image: PD 1. Robot-assisted colectomies had equivalent clinical outcomes compared to laparoscopic approach, but had higher overall higher overall hospitalization ...