Is single-incision laparoscopic surgery an evolving technology which is showing great promise for patients who need minimally-invasive surgery? Is there less chance of infection, less scarring and better cosmetic results, meaning patients can recover faster because there are fewer incisions? Can we expect to see this technique being applied to more and more general laparoscopic […]
Category Archives: Placed in the navel
NOTES > TUES > TULA > NOTUS > IRCAD > EITS > Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Did Antony Kalloo, when he presented his experience in transgastric surgery in 2004, imagine that he and NOTES would be at the epicentre of a revolution in laparoscopic surgery? Did the ASGE and SAGES leaders, who created a working group to develop transluminal surgery, sense that this idea would have some repercussion on laparoscopic surgery? […]
Man undergoes new gallbladder surgery > A different way of doing the procedure > Incision in his bellybutton > Operate through three channels > Placed in the navel > Pull the gallbladder out through the navel > Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery SILS > Single skin incision in patient’s umbilicus > Single surgeon > Single port laparoscopy SPL > Single Port Access SPA > Multi port > Single port laparoscopic pediatric surgery > STAT Self-approximating Transluminal Access Technique > Belly-button access > Single Incision > Single-port cannula with three working channels > Single surgical tool > Single-site surgery > Transumbilical cholecystectomy > Single laparoscopic incision transabdominal surgery > NOTUS > Placed through the umbilicus > Three laparoscopic ports > Single Port Access Surgery > Natural orifice transumbilical surgery NOTUS > Single Port Retroperitoneal Surgery > Single small umbilical incision > OPUS procedure > single Port > Umbilicus > Single Port Access SPA > r-Port > Single incision > Small skin incisions > Z-line > Laparoscopy > Limited direct access to the abdomen > OPUS Laparoscopic Cholecystectomies > Scarless single port procedures SPA > Single-Port Laparoscopic Radical Cystectomy > Single Port Laparoscopic SPL > Uni-X Single Port Laparoscopic System > Pnavel Systems > Single-Port > One Port Umbilicus Surgeries OPUS > Trans-umbilical > Single Port Laparoscopy > Instruments inserted through a single access port
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Are half a million gallbladders being removed in the United States every year? Are too many patients walking away with several small scars as evidence of the procedure? Will patients emerge from the operating table nearly unscathed, with no scar or just a single incision in the bellybutton?
IIP > read on here > http://www.nj.com…
…Suffering from […]