A nurse-led initiative at a Denver hospital led to fewer complications for female patients recovering from open-heart surgery ...

In the United States, approximately 55% of resected gallbladder cancer (GBC) patients undergo oncologic surgery without ...

Shamsa Sharawe made her name campaigning against female genital cutting. Then she heard about surgery to rebuild what had been taken from her.

Karla Flores was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor. A misplaced MRI found a second, nearly inoperable, tumor on her spine.

Thyroid surgery (thyroidectomy) involves the removal of some or all of the thyroid gland. This operation may be done to treat a number of diseases and conditions, including thyroid cancer, symptomatic ...

The Hunter Surgical Clinical Research Unit helps future surgeons develop knowledge, understanding, and research skills, fostering growth in surgical practice and innovation. The Hunter Surgical ...

For certain scars, such as raised scars called keloids, surgery may be used in combination ... to be done for active disease than for scar removal, Watchmaker says. Some keloid scars, including ...

Joint fusion (arthrodesis): Sometimes, after the removal of a tumor that involves a joint (an area where two bones come together), it might not be possible to reconstruct the joint. In this case, ...

An 80-year-old woman underwent surgery for the removal of her gallbladder, only for the surgeon to discover it had already been removed several years earlier. Deputy Health and Disability ...

The researchers focused on the four most common types of major surgery: removal of the appendix, removal of the gall bladder, removal of part of the colon and hernia repair. The different rates of ...

A nonsurgical combination treatment for keloids achieved complete resolution in over 80% of patients and was associated with high satisfaction rates in an observational study of adults in Brazil ...