The routine use of diagnostic laparoscopy for young women who present with right iliac fossa pain reduces the rate of negative appendectomy, according to a new study. However, the implementation of ...

During a pelvic laparoscopy, your doctor uses an instrument called a laparoscope to examine your reproductive organs. A laparoscope is a long, thin tube with a high-intensity light and high-resolution ...

For decades, the human appendix was casually dismissed as a “useless” vestige. Modern research and clinical experience, however, suggest that this small, narrow pouch, attached to the cecum in the ...