If diagnosed early, gallbladder cancer can be cured with surgery. However, this type of cancer spreads quickly and often isn’t diagnosed until its later stages. Share on Pinterest simon2579/Getty ...

Credit: John Hopkins University/Cover Images A surgical robot trained using videos of real procedures has successfully completed a key phase of a gallbladder removal on a lifelike model—without any ...

Stabbing pain after gallbladder removal can signal a complication. Examples of these include bile leakage or bile duct injury, retained gallstones, or post-cholecystectomy syndrome. The gallbladder is ...

Cholecystitis is inflammation of the gallbladder. It usually occurs due to a bile duct blockage. Surgery to remove the gallbladder is the main treatment, but other options can help reduce pain and ...

The gallbladder removal procedure is complex, a minutes-long string of 17 tasks. The robot had to identify certain ducts and arteries and grab them precisely, strategically place clips, and sever ...

Surgical Robot Transformer-Hierarchy, SRT-H, performing gallbladder surgery on a pig cadaver. Credit: Juo-Tung Chen, Johns Hopkins University Almost a quarter of all surgeries in the United States use ...

Some elective surgeries in Grande Prairie have been postponed because of issues with sterilizing surgical tools. Alberta ...

Gallbladder cancer and cholangiocarcinoma are different types of biliary tract cancer. They affect the same system in the body and cause similar symptoms, but they may require different treatments.