NEW YORK (July 28, 2008) -- In April of last year, surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center made headlines by removing a women's gallbladder through her uterus ...

The most common treatment for gallstones is removing your gallbladder. The gallbladder is not an essential organ, which means that you can live normally without one. It is a storage organ for bile.

Single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy (SILC) has emerged over the past decade as an evolution of standard multi-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy, seeking to reduce visible scarring and ...

KALAMAZOO MI - A Borgess surgeon has become the first to perform a single-incision gall bladder surgery in the Kalamazoo area. The innovative procedure, performed through one small slit near the belly ...

Santiago Horgan, MD, chief of minimally invasive surgery at UC San Diego Health System, was the first surgeon in the U.S. to remove a gallbladder through a patient’s belly button, according to a UCSD ...

NATIONAL (NBC) - Going "under the knife" may soon be an out-of-date phrase. Surgeons are now conducting some surgeries without incisions. Albert Pagliuca has gallstones, and like a half million other ...

French surgeons successfully removed a woman’s gall bladder through her vagina, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The history of ...

Your gallbladder helps your body break down and store a substance called bile, which helps digest fats. While the gallbladder has a job in the digestion process, it’s not essential for your overall ...

SANANTONIO -- Gall bladder disease is so common in San Antonio that our city is considered the gall bladder capital of the United States. Now, one local surgeon is using a new technique to treat the ...