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Brain surgery – a cure for obesity?
Overweight and obesity have become a very big problem over the last two decades. This problem is so significant that the experts of the World Health Organization (WHO) have qualified the obesity as the...
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Gamma Knife in neurooncology
Radiosurgical Gamma Knife is a device used to treat benign and malignant brain tumors as well as some of the other diseases of the nervous system. Gamma Knife (also known as the Leksell Gamma...
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Da Vinci Robot
Robotic surgery can be considered as a “step forward” in laparoscopic surgery. Surgeon does not stand behind the operating table, but controls the intervention using a special console. The image is...
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Advances in lens implant technology
Last 60 years have brought about significant developments in the cataract surgery. Traumatic and manual implantation of a simple lens was replaced by a minimally invasive surgical intervention...
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Closure of Patent ductus arteriosus in preterm newborns as a minimally...
Evan Zahn, who is an expert in the field of congenital heart defects, and his coworkers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have used minimally invasive method to repair one of the most...
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Inguinal hernia treatment – lightweight mesh reduces postoperative pain
A group of researchers from Surgery Clinic of University in Napoli have examined frequency of occurrence and escalation of postoperative pain and other complications in patients who underwent operation...
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Acute appendicitis – antibiotic therapy or surgery?
A commonly known treatment method of acute appendicitis is an appendectomy. It is more frequently performed in laparoscopic way, what decreases the risk of wound infection, is less painful, shortens...
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Does the diet after colorectal surgery make a difference?
Over the past 20 years of medical research, there has been a significant increase in awareness of the importance of early feeding after colorectal surgeries. Surgeons transitioned from the routine...
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