About half of the people who have the procedure are still alive five years after the surgery. Liver resection requires hospitalization. Liver resection requires general anesthesia. The surgery can ...

The patient was diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening condition that required him to undergo a two-hour surgery. Without ...

The most feared complication of laparoscopic liver resection is hemorrhage during ... Center for Videoendoscopic Surgery, Department of General Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle Raymond ...

It was bad, and now with what we're doing, with resection, working with the surgeons ... we're putting the chemotherapy directly into the liver, we have 56% alive at 5 years, and 40% at 10 ...

The benefits of surgery, researchers noted, were unaffected by the timing of the procedure. “This study confirmed that surgical resection of GIST liver metastases during systematic treatment can ...

This surgery is for small, early stage colon cancers. Your surgeon removes the cancer from the bowel lining, along with a border of healthy tissue (margin). This is called a local resection. The ...

In a recent review article published in the journal Laparoscopic, Endoscopic and Robotic Surgery, researchers explored the current state and future potential of robotic surgery for liver ...

At the 15-year mark, patients who had bariatric surgery were 72 percent less likely to have developed major complications like liver cancer than similar patients who didn’t have surgery.