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Category Archives: One peri-umbilical incision

Single Port Laparoscopic Surgery > SLS > Advanced laparoscopic surgery > Single 18-mm umbilical incision > Single-port access SPA > Laparoscopic surgery > Single-incision laparoscopy SIL > Laparoscopic gallbladder > Foregut > Gynecologic procedures > Urologic > Colorectal > Hernia > Spleen surgery > One peri-umbilical incision > Flexible radially dilating 3- or 4-channel port > Totally incision-free > Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery NOTES > Traditional laparoscopic 2-handed dissection ablation and suturing techniques

Are practicing surgeons and community hospitals able to acquire the skills and instrumentation and offer patients alternative procedures to NOTES during the early developmental phase of the translumenal procedures? Does SPA have a much stronger potential to be safely learned by experienced laparoscopic surgeons? Do advanced laparoscopic procedures being performed via SPA using traditional laparoscopic […]