The massive robot-making, pacemaker-inventing medtech company Medtronic is facing a financial snag: the humble stapler.

A scab after surgery is a normal part of healing. It forms at the incision site to protect the skin underneath while it heals. Removing a scab can impede healing, so it's best to let it fall off on ...

During an upper endoscopy, your health care provider will inflate a special balloon at the anastomosis. The opening will be stretched back to its original size, if possible. This is called endoscopic ...

1 Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China 2 Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Mianyang 404 Hospital, Mianyang, ...

but not long after the second superficial temporal artery anastomosis, thrombotic occlusion at the initial site necessitated immediate surgical intervention. The occlusion was removed, 3000 units of ...