Surgeon removes gall bladder from mouth
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An Oregon surgeon has performed gall bladder surgery that removes the organ through the patient's mouth &#151; the latest example of surgeries that avoid major incisions and rely on the body's own orifices instead.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Yasser Arafat has a large gallstone, a Palestinian hospital official said yesterday, as the weakened Palestinian leader broke his Ramadan fast and underwent more medical tests at the urging of his doctors.
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Scientists believe they have found a target in the body that could stop gallstones from being formed.
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Surgeons remove part of monster tumour Chinese surgeons today removed around 10kg (22lb) of a monster tumour which had transformed 31-year-old Huang Chuncai into the country's homegrown Joseph Merrick, Reuters reports.â¦
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A German who had his lower jaw cut out because of cancer has enjoyed his first meal in nine years - a bratwurst sandwich â-fter surgeons grew a new jaw bone in his back muscle and transplanted it to his mouth in what experts call an âambitious
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A German who had his lower jaw cut out because of cancer has enjoyed his first meal in nine years - a bratwurst sandwich - after surgeons grew a new jaw bone in his back muscle and transplanted it into his ...
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Nov. 10 - Skilled surgeons use life saving medical devices. And manufacturers designed them for one patient or procedure only. But medical recycling companies resterilize them, putting more than 25 million used devices back into service.
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Cutting into someone's chest to perform heart surgery is not yet an accepted medical practice. But without it James Cornish is doomed, so the surgeon goes in.
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NEW YORK  - People who have their tonsils removed using an "intracapsular" technique -- which removes at least 90 percent of tonsil tissue, but spares the tonsil capsule -- seem to experience less bleeding and pain after surgery compared with those who have their tonsils out using the traditional tonsil removal surgery, new research suggests.
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Once bladder cancer invades surrounding muscles, surgical removal of the bladder -- radical cystectomy -- is usually deemed necessary. However, if the disease has not spread to other areas of the body, this can sometimes be avoided, according to Italian researchers.
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A New Orleans surgeon is cleared by a grand jury of murdering four patients in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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MERIGNAC, France -- Braving queasy stomachs, a team of French doctors took to the skies yesterday for the first operation on a human being in zero-gravity conditions, removing a cyst from the arm of a man as the aircraft soared and dived to create weightlessness.
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The doctor is out. But was he ever in? On Friday, surgeon Brian W. Amy appeared to have engineered an improbable move from being Mississippi's embattled top health official to overseeing efforts to improve quality of care in the federal Medicare program.
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PARIS  - A German man has been able to eat his first solid meal in nine years, thanks to a pioneering surgical technique in which the patient incubated a replacement jawbone in a muscle on his back.
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Bud Selig, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, had surgery to remove a cancerous lesion from his forehead.
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Disciplinary hearing for 'Hot Rod' mobe pic sawbones An Arizona surgeon who used a mobile phone to photograph a patient's wedding tackle during a gallbladder operation may face disciplinary action and the wrath of his victim's attorney.â¦
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When Emily Martin was hospitalized for emergency gallbladder surgery last summer, her doctors found that she also had acid reflux, causing erosion of her esophagus.