KEYHOLE surgery allows people to recover faster after abdominal operations and leaves them with only a small scar. Now a team at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, is proposing a radical new method that might improve recovery times even further and leave no visible scars.
The technique involves inserting an endoscope down the throat and into the abdominal cavity through a hole in the stomach. The stomach is first washed out with an antibacterial solution. The team says this is preferable to cutting through the skin and muscle of the abdominal wall and should reduce recovery time as the…
