laparoscopy
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Ms Brewster said that people can wait up to eight years for a diagnosis as it required a laparoscopy, a keyhole surgery procedure, to confirm the condition.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025
Henshaw underwent a laparoscopy external-link in December 2020 to confirm the diagnosis and has since gone on the pill, which has helped her manage her cycle and her pain.
From BBC ● May 8, 2023
Think of it as brain surgery’s answer to laparoscopy: The approach allows the doctor to make repairs in the brain without having to open up a patient’s skull.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
Surgical options range from a minimally invasive laparoscopy procedure to more involved surgery that pulls the stomach back down into the abdomen.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2022
Is it worth one more laparoscopy, or have you really truly identified that there is nothing?
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2022
Overall, this happened up to 8 percent of the time in robotic operations and as much as 12 percent in laparoscopies.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2021
In urologic and gynecologic surgeries, there was almost no difference between robot-assisted operations and laparoscopies in the number of operations that had to be switched to open procedures.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2021
D’Hooghe’s team carried out laparoscopies on 221 infertile women who had no obvious symptoms.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2015
Harms of pelvic examination include unnecessary laparoscopies or laparotomies, fear, anxiety, embarrassment, pain, and discomfort.
From Forbes ● Jul. 3, 2014
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