Gone are the days of big incisions and big scars from many types of surgery. Doctors at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford are now performing gallbladder removal surgery that's scar-free. The surgery ...

Surgeons at UCSF have taken a major step down the path toward less invasive procedures, performing San Francisco’s first gallbladder removal using only a single, small incision hidden within the navel ...

We talk to one doctor about scarfree surgery and what it means for the future. Sept. 20, 2007 — -- Doctors are stretching the boundaries of laparoscopic surgical technique, which involves ...

Santiago Horgan, MD, chief of minimally invasive surgery at UC San Diego Medical Center, who performed some of the gallbladder surgeries, agrees that the trial has provided the necessary evidence. "We ...