single incision lift laparoscopic surgeries [sills]: taking modern surgery to the poor

Single-incision Laparoscopic Surgery

in many gynecologic procedures with better results in terms of minimal perioperative morbidity and shorter hospital stay, with consequent improved quality of life compared to laparotomic approach1,2. Despite this wellknown advantages, laparoscopy still requires 0.5 to 1.5 cm long incisions and three to five ports to be performed, each working port implying with an inherent risk of bleeding, inf...

Needlescopic-Assisted Surgery: Single-Incision or Multi-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery?

instrument with a small-diameter (less than 3 mm), a Mediflex disposable suture grasper closure device, as a percutaneous organholding device. The authors compared clinical outcomes between a single-port laparoscopic appendectomy (SPA) using a glove port with a percutaneous organ-holding device (group 1) and a SPA using a commercially-available multichannel single port (group 2). In group 1, a ...

Single – Incision Laparoscopic Surgery for Rectal Cancer

There have been major advances in the treatment of rectal cancer in the last two decades. Improvements in surgical instrumentation has dramatically impacted the surgical approach to rectal cancer. Particularly laparoscopic procedures have been assumed a central role in the management of benign and malignant colorectal diseases as a result of a recent paradigm shift toward minimally invasive sur...

Preemptive Analgesia in Single-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery

cision is closely associated with postoperative wound pain [9]. The single umbilical incisions reported in other studies typically reached lengths of 15 to 20 mm. Although postoperative pain has not been a major concern since the introduction of the routine laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC), supporters of a single-incision LC (SILC) advocate the hypothesis that a reduction in the number of inci...

Single-incision laparoscopic surgery in urology.

INTRODUCTION To assess the feasibility of single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) in some urological surgeries. MATERIAL AND METHODS This prospective study was conducted on 40 patients (27 males and 13 females) from January 2010 to June 2011. Six procedures were done, SILS renal cyst decortication (n = 10), SILS varicocelectomy (n = 10), SILS orchiopexy (n = 10), SILS nephrectomy (n = 3),...

Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS) for Cholecystectomy