Your surgeon will cut into your abdomen: one large cut for open surgery, or a few small ones for laparoscopic surgery ... With the LINX procedure, your doctor uses a laparoscope to put a ring ...

Cholecystectomy (ko-luh-sis-TEK-tuh-mee) is a type of surgery that removes a diseased gallbladder. This surgery is usually done as a laparoscopic surgery ... you may have a special X-ray procedure ...

It is performed under General Anesthesia. The surgery takes about half an hour. In the Laparoscopy procedure, the abdomen is filled with carbon dioxide gas by introducing a needle so that the ...

The type of procedure used depends on the individual patient and her condition. Abdominal hysterectomy. An incision is made in the lower abdomen to reach the uterus, resulting in longer healing time ...

Injury to intra-abdominal structures is a common complication of laparoscopic surgery that is usually ... undergoing laparoscopic gastric-bypass procedures.