How to Use laparoscopy in a Sentence

laparoscopy

noun
  • In the first and second trimester, laparoscopy is feasible.
    Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2017
  • During laparoscopy, a number of small (read: one-half-inch or less) cuts are made into the abdomen.
    Jennifer Gerson, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2018
  • My second laparoscopy for my Endometriosis was over the holidays and of course, who was right by my side?
    Kate Hogan, PEOPLE.com, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Her medical records show she was also given a laparoscopy, in which incisions are made in the abdomen.
    NBC News, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Brad was rushed to a second hospital where an emergency laparoscopy was performed to clean out his insides and replace the tube.
    Jenny Mollen, Marie Claire, 17 July 2017
  • Brad was rushed to a second hospital where an emergency laparoscopy was performed to clean out his insides and replace the tube.
    Jenny Mollen, Marie Claire, 17 July 2017
  • In 2018, Hough recounted two times when her dog Lexi wouldn’t leave her side following laparoscopy to treat her endometriosis.
    Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 12 Oct. 2019
  • In laparoscopy, surgeons thread medical instruments and cameras by hand through small holes in the patient’s body.
    Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2017
  • In one case, a surgeon had perforated a patient’s bowel during a laparoscopy.
    The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • Of course, depending on your condition and what’s available laparoscopy may not be possible.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • He was put on a feeding tube, and an exploratory laparoscopy showed potential signs of an infection that was resolving, but no action was deemed needed.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 June 2022
  • So scientists often use laparoscopy, sending a thin tube into each animal to view its organs.
    National Geographic, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The surgery usually is a minimally invasive procedure, such as a laparoscopy or done with a small incision.
    Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Moll knew that laparoscopy, for all its benefits, could exhaust and frustrate surgeons, who often had to spend several hours manipulating their tools through tiny holes.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Still, if the pain doesn’t go away after multiple laparoscopies, a woman may elect to do a hysterectomy and oophorectomy to remove the uterus and target estrogen production.
    Zahra Barnes, SELF, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Definitively diagnosing the disorder requires invasive surgery; doctors need to peer inside the pelvis through a laparoscopy.
    Julia Belluz, Vox, 24 July 2018
  • Other treatment options can happen during laparoscopy, where the surgeon can choose to remove or destroy lesions and scar tissue, though pain often returns after a short period of relief.
    Elizabeth Varnell, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2018
  • That often requires laparoscopy, viewing the turtle's internal organs by inserting a thin camera.
    Craig Welch, National Geographic, 4 Apr. 2019
  • But robotic surgeries cost hospitals more to provide and often are reimbursed by insurers at the same rate as for conventional laparoscopy, according to some experts.
    Mary Chris Jaklevic, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2019
  • Diagnosis is done using laparoscopy, in which a surgeon inserts a lighted viewing instrument called a laparoscope through a small incision.
    Ilene Raymond Rush, Philly.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Unlike kidney removals performed now using laparoscopy, a minimally invasive procedure, surgeons sliced Bowling from her spine to near her navel.
    Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The traditional open surgery, in which a surgeon operates through a long skin incision, is starting to be replaced by robotically assisted laparoscopy, with a surgeon operating a robotic system that performs the surgery through smaller incisions.
    WSJ, 24 June 2018
  • Additionally, hysteroscopic sterilization compared with laparoscopy did not significantly differ in the risks of certain medical concerns, such as autoimmune diseases, thyroid disorders or the risk of death, the researchers found.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Lapovations is a medical device company focused on improving laparoscopy.
    Andrea Rumbaugh, Houston Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018

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