Fertility counseling in young adult patients with cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2013 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text component.

An appeals court has upheld a family's $9.5 million jury award after a physician left an 18-inch sponge in a patient's abdomen that remained in her stomach for 5 years. During the surgery, performed ...

There are two surgical options for ovarian cysts. Laparoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure, while laparotomy requires a larger cut. Factors affecting the decision include the size of the cyst and ...

Laparotomy is the medical term for a type of open surgery of the abdomen. It allows surgeons to view the abdominal organs to diagnose and treat a variety of conditions. Here, we look at the types and ...

Patients with Do Not Resuscitate orders are more than twice as likely to die within 30 days of surgery as those without the orders, according to a new study at Yale. The study, led by Hadiza Kazaure, ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has announced that a 59-year-old businessman, Chijioke Nnanna Igbokwe, underwent surgery, an exploratory laparotomy, to remove 57 out of 81 pellets of ...