Karen Horvath, M.D., colon & rectal surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, minimally invasive surgery, pancreatic surgery; University of Washington Medical Center, Surgery, 1959 NE Pacific St., Seattle, ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TransEnterix, Inc. (NYSE American: TRXC), a medical device company that is digitizing the interface between surgeons and patients to improve minimally ...

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) include 80% of gastrointestinal mesenchymal tumors that originate from interstitial Cajal cells and include 0.1-3% of GI malignancies, and the stomach is the ...

April 22, 2010 (Landover, Maryland) — New data presented here at the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons 12th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery suggest that, despite the ...

GIST is an acronym that stands for gastrointestinal stromal tumor. This type of cancer starts in interstitial cells of Cajal (ICCs), which are special cells that line the walls of the gastrointestinal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Robotic surgery for rectal cancer is gaining popularity, but persuasive evidence on long-term oncologic outcomes ...

IMRT-induced acute hepatic toxicity and analysis of the dose-volume effects in gastric cancer patients treated with postoperative radiation. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 ASCO Annual ...

The risk of developing venous thromboembolism may be nearly twice as high for patients undergoing open surgery for colorectal problems, versus those undergoing laparoscopic colorectal resections, ...

The incidence of acute gastrointestinal injury (AGI) after colorectal surgery is low when laparoscopic techniques are used. While elevated intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) and intra-abdominal ...

Trainee surgeons learning to conduct laparoscopic (or keyhole) surgery will soon be able to complete their training quicker thanks to an AI-empowered system being developed by researchers at the ...