Keyhole surgery is particularly difficult, so good training for surgeons is essential. Tim Horeman has improved several aspects of this training. He has demonstrated that force and motion measurements ...

A start-up creating robots to assist surgeons in carrying out keyhole surgery has raised $20.3 million, backed by European automation giant ABB. Keyhole surgery is process in which a camera is ...

A 97-year-old man underwent a keyhole (arthroscopic) procedure at Rela Hospital to receive a fully biodegradable balloon ...

Keyhole surgery for heart valve repair may trump robotic surgery, because it is associated with lower rates of subsequent heart flutter and blood transfusions, and a shorter hospital stay, reveals ...

Keyhole surgery for oesophageal cancer is as good as more invasive surgery in terms of survival, according to unpublished clinical trial results. There may also be benefits in reducing complications ...

Those who had tumors removed from their livers with keyhole surgery had fewer complications, a better quality of life and similar long-term oncologic outcomes, a new PhD thesis shows. In many patients ...

The use of keyhole surgery to repair ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm is both clinically and cost effective and should be adopted more widely, concludes a randomised trial published by The BMJ today ...

U.K. engineers have developed a miniature keyhole surgery robot arm, which is able to carry out a range of minimally invasive laparoscopic operations including hernia repairs, colorectal operations, ...

The robot, nicknamed Surgie, was remotely controlled by human surgeons as it carried out the procedure on a pig US scientists ...

A four-month-old baby boy has become one of the youngest reported patients to undergo a rare lung-sparing keyhole surgery at ...

US scientists at UCSD successfully performed keyhole surgery using a Chinese-made humanoid robot, remotely controlled by ...