Surgeons specializing in laparoscopic procedures have successfully removed a patient's kidney by performing a unique nephrectomy entirely through the belly button. Surgeons specializing in ...

Your standard minimally invasive surgery requires three to six small incisions, or ports, but at Cleveland Clinic, surgeons are using single-port surgery that is done through a belly-button incision, ...

Surgeons have removed a patient's diseased kidney through one incision hidden in the belly button. No other incisions were used. On Thursday, February 5, 2009, surgeons at the University of California ...

In patients with prostate cancer treated with robotic prostate removal, incisional hernias occurred less often when the incision was made through the side abdominal muscle than above the belly button.