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Cottage Health has opened the Cottage Surgical Clinics, a Cottage Medical Group specialty care clinic at 2320 Bath St., Ste. 101, Santa Barbara. The ...

Minimizing opioid exposure during and after colorectal surgery can decrease long-term opioid use in some patients, according ...

Jenna Scott said doctors chalked up her abdominal cramping to pregnancy symptoms or IBS. It took a year to get diagnosed with ...

Jeff Ross revealing a savage joke that his doctor delivered while sharing his colon cancer diagnosis "My oncologist was ... and having seven inches of his colon removed via laparoscopic surgery in the ...

Conclusions: Single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) for colorectal cancer has demonstrated with feasibility, safety, and efficacy. The less painful postoperative experience was aligned with the ...

Robotic-assisted surgery for colorectal cancer (CRC) demonstrated positive outcomes, with minimal blood loss and low conversion rates in 355 cases. The Senhance Robotic System was used in sigmoid ...

Liu C, Gui Y, Zeng M, Zhou Z. Effects of dexmedetomidine combined with intravenous general anesthesia on hemodynamics and inflammatory factors in patients undergoing laparoscopic colorectal cancer ...

In a significant medical feat, doctors here said on Monday of a simultaneous triple surgery on a 44-year-old man for heart disease, gallstones, and colon cancer -- all in 7 hours. The patient ...

Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery was found to be more effective in harvesting lymph nodes compared with conventional surgery with similar outcomes.

A laparoscopic approach usually has less pain and scarring, a faster recovery, and less risk of infection than an open surgery through a large cut. Colorectal surgeons have used laparoscopy to ...

Your surgeon might recommend eating a low-fiber diet for about a month. Recovery from a laparoscopic surgery is faster than with an open resection. You’ll also have less pain and smaller scars.