A robot designed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University has performed incredibly intricate surgery on a pig—without human assistance. And it may just be the future of laparoscopic surgery. The ...

Laparoscopic or "minimally invasive" surgery is a specialized technique for performing surgery. In the past, this technique was commonly used for gynecologic surgery and for gall bladder surgery. Over ...

More than 12 years ago, Dr. J. Michael Smith, performed the first robotic assisted surgery at TriHealth. It was a coronary bypass procedure. “We were one of the first centers doing advanced cardiac ...

What if your next surgery was planned and performed by a robot? A team at Johns Hopkins University is working to turn this idea into reality. The concept of robot-assisted surgery is not new: several ...

The Pentagon says an Army doctor performed the U.S. military's first 3-D minimally invasive surgery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., last week. Col. (Dr.) Ernest Lockrow, ...

Historically, invasive, large incisions were necessary to perform “open” abdominal surgical procedures. While effective, this method increased the possibility of multiple complications, including post ...

This single-center, 10-year, prospective study included patients with a benign liver lesion or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with compensated cirrhosis. Laparoscopic liver surgery was attempted in ...

Hackensack Meridian Children's Health pediatric general surgeon Margaret M. McGuire, M.D, FACS,FAAP., was the first surgeon at K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital at Jersey Shore University Medical ...

On March 20, Dr. Mitch Dizon, a subspecialist in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery at Erlanger Women’s Health, performed the region’s first laparoscopic radiofrequency ablation surgery for ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins this week issued a report noting that their Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) system has completed laparoscopic surgery on a pig tissue without human guidance. The ...