For many abdominal procedures, advantages such as minimal scarring, reduced pain, and faster recovery have made laparoscopy the favored approach over traditional open surgery. The most recent minimally invasive approach is natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), which limits morbidity because this surgery does not require incision. This article reviews the history, development,...

We report an endoscopically assisted total diverticulectomy for Zenker's diverticulum. Skin incisions were made at the anterior axillary line, the center of the sternum, and the neck as portals for endoscopical instruments. The skin was retracted with hooks which provided an excellent view of the working space. The diverticulum was fully exposed and resected by using a multifire endoscopic stap...

During the last two decades, several techniques for minimally-invasive parathyroidectomy have been developed, including open approaches (open minimally-invasive parathyroidectomy - OMI P), minimally-invasive radio-guided parathyroidectomy (MI-RP), video-assisted parathyroidectomy (VAP), video-assisted parathyroidectomy through a lateral approach (VAP-LA) and purely endoscopic parathyroidectomy ...

101 Despite being a relative newcomer to surgery, videola-paroscopy, also known as operative or therapeutic laparoscopy) has ignited a revolution in the surgical approach where it has been utilized for virtually every surgically addressed pathological entity. 1 Videolaparoscopic surgery has the predominant means of performing many common surgical procedures. Operative laparoscopy has largely pr...

BACKGROUND In the vast majority of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (HPT) the causative pathology is a benign solitary adenoma. The conventional surgical approach for HPT has involved bilateral cervical exploration with attempted identification of all four parathyroids and resection of enlarged glands. However, in recent years new techniques have permitted accurate preoperative localis...

We report the case of a 72-year-old patient presenting with an isolated common iliac aneurysm with occlusion of contralateral common iliac artery and severe kyphoscoliosis. Because of high risk for open surgery due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, this patient was treated with an endovascular approach using an aortomonoiliac stent graft, followed by a femoro-femoral crossover bypass. T...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Compare outcomes of concomitant primary thyroidectomy with elective central neck dissection (CND) by the standard open versus minimally invasive video-assisted (MIVA) approach. STUDY DESIGN Case series chart review, single institution, tertiary referral center. METHODS Current Procedural Terminology code 60252 was used to identify patients undergoing CND from February ...