keyhole surgery

A team of doctors in the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer) has successfully performed a complex keyhole liver surgery on a 59-year-old male cancer patient from Cuddalore district.

Vadodara: Now patients in Vadodara requiring keyhole brain surgery will not have to go out of the city.For the first time, this type of brain surgery has been performed at city-based Bhailal Amin General Hospital.

On Sunday, for the first time in the city's annals of medical procedures, a mitral valve was repaired by keyhole surgery.The procedure was carried out by an Italy-based surgeon, Professor Francesco Musumeci.

Part Of Elderly Patient’s Intestines Had Migrated Into His Chest

Health seems is going hi-tech, thanks to scientists who have now developed camera pills and ultra-sound creating maps, which they claim to facilitate accurate surgery without causing stress to patients.

The oncology specialist team of Indiana Hospital and Heart Institute, Mangaluru, successfully performed single keyhole surgery on a lung cancer patient recently.

Health seems to be going hi-tech, thanks to scientists who have now developed camera pills and ultra-sound creating maps, which they claim will facilitate in accurate surgery and stressing patients as little as possible.

Robots have been used sporadically to perform key-hole surgeries in the city. Starting Friday, however, robotic key-hole surgeries will be an option for a range of treatments such as heart, uterine, ovarian, prostrate, kidney and weight-loss procedures at Apollo Hospitals. Patients going for surgeries can choose the robotic methods, but may have to pay up to 75% more.

A 53-year-old's tumour was successfully removed from his neck by a keyhole surgery on Wednesday.

A 55-year-old who was diagnosed with a tumour that was the size of a cricket ball in his right kidney was operated upon in a city-based hospital on Friday.

Laparoscopic or keyhole surgeries are fast replacing conventional surgical techniques for nearly all gynecological problems. Not only is the technique being used to cure most diseases of the uterus, it has also started to become a vital tool for early detection, diagnosis, staging and treatment of cancer in women.

The department of urology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University would organise a two-day live operative workshop on Saturday and Sunday for kidney patients. The operative workshop will focus on ‘ultra-mini percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL), which employs miniaturised instruments for achieving stone-free results comparable to keyhole surgery while minimizing the operative trauma to the kidney.

A J Hospital and Research Centre is organising a shoulder arthroscopy camp at the hospital premises at Kuntikana here from May 18-30.

Creating history, Ernakulam General Hospital (GH) performed a complex heart surgery through a minimally invasive procedure. District collector Renu Raj shared the news on the collector's social media page.

In this fast-paced world, more people are opting for keyhole surgeries that help quicken the healing process. The minimally invasive surgery (MIS) technique is getting equally popular in the West and India.

A thyroid operation due to any growth or cancer often leads to a visible scar in the neck of the patients. The scar appears like a necklace and become very obvious often inviting questions and curious looks.

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Two pellets were removed from the brain of a 32-year-old man through a keyhole surgery while he was awake and alert. Pradeep Kumar and his friend, while returning home on a bike were shot by an agitated person near Moolamattom, Idukki, on March 26 this year.