laparoscopy
Americannoun
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laparoscopies
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Origin of laparoscopy
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Years later, she went on to have surgery - a laparoscopy - to get a definitive diagnosis because she felt she really needed to know what was going on.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
After having a ruptured cyst, she had a laparoscopy to remove some endometriosis, which eased her symptoms for a while, but she still experiences severe pain during flare-ups.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
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
In studies of gastrointestinal surgery, life-threatening complications ranged from 0 to 2 percent for robot-assisted surgery, from 0 to 3 percent for laparoscopy and from 1 to 4 percent for open surgeries.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2021
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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