DALLAS – Feb. 28, 2008 – UT Southwestern Medical Center surgeons have removed a gallbladder through a unique operation requiring only a single incision in the bellybutton rather than the traditional ...

SANANTONIO -- Gall bladder disease is so common in San Antonio that our city is considered the gall bladder capital of the United States. Now, one local surgeon is using a new technique to treat the ...

Laparoscopic gallbladder surgery is usually preferred because it causes less bleeding and has a shorter recovery time. Keep your incision site(s) clean and dry after surgery, take your pain medication ...

OU Medical Center Edmond is the first hospital in the state to offer a single incision gall bladder removal utilizing the daVinci Surgical System. This advanced surgical technique recently was ...

Cholecystitis is inflammation of the gallbladder. Doctors usually treat cholecystitis by surgically removing this organ, known as a cholecystectomy. Cholecystitis is inflammation of the gallbladder, ...

KALAMAZOO MI - A Borgess surgeon has become the first to perform a single-incision gall bladder surgery in the Kalamazoo area. The innovative procedure, performed through one small slit near the belly ...

For some time, Tara Hennessy had digestive symptoms that she described as annoying. A year or so ago her problems became more serious. “I just thought that a sensitive stomach was part of life for me, ...

Santiago Horgan, MD, chief of minimally invasive surgery at UC San Diego Health System, was the first surgeon in the U.S. to remove a gallbladder through a patient’s belly button, according to a UCSD ...