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  1. Laparoscopy: What It Is, What To Expect & Recovery

    Mar 1, 2024 · Laparoscopic surgery is similar to a laparoscopy. But instead of looking for medical problems, your healthcare provider uses a laparoscope and surgical instruments to operate on …

  2. Laparoscopy - Wikipedia

    There are a number of advantages to the patient with laparoscopic surgery versus an exploratory laparotomy. These include reduced pain due to smaller incisions, reduced hemorrhaging, and …

  3. Laparoscopic Surgery: Purpose, Procedure, and Benefits - WebMD

    Oct 10, 2025 · Laparoscopic Surgery: A minimally invasive technique using a laparoscope, through small incisions, without needing to excessively cut through the body.

  4. Laparoscopy - Johns Hopkins Medicine

    Laparoscopy may be done to treat an ectopic pregnancy or to do a tubal ligation (tie the fallopian tubes) to permanently prevent pregnancy. Laparoscopy can also be used to do bariatric …

  5. Laparoscopy Definition, Risks, and Recovery Time

    Laparoscopy is a way of performing a surgery. Instead of making a large incision (or cut) for certain operations, surgeons make tiny incisions and insert thin instruments and a camera into …

  6. Laparoscopy: MedlinePlus Medical Test

    Nov 16, 2022 · A laparoscopy is a type of surgery that lets a surgeon look inside your body without making a large incision (cut). It's used to help diagnose and sometimes treat …

  7. What is Laparoscopic Surgery? - American Cancer Society

    Laparoscopy is a procedure a doctor uses to look inside the abdomen (belly) and pelvis. This is done with a laparoscope, a thin, flexible tube with a light and a small video camera on the end. …

  8. Laparoscopy and laparoscopic surgery - Harvard Health

    Nov 24, 2025 · Increasingly popular since the 1980s, laparoscopic surgery allows much smaller incisions. For example, abdominal and pelvic laparoscopic surgery can diagnose and treat …

  9. Laparoscopy - Kaiser Permanente

    Oct 1, 2025 · Laparoscopy (say "lap-uh-ROSS-kuh-pee") is a type of surgery that uses very small cuts in the belly. These cuts are called incisions. The doctor puts a lighted tube (scope) …

  10. Laparoscopy - ACOG

    Laparoscopy is a way of doing surgery using small incisions (cuts). It's also called "minimally invasive surgery."