Hand assisted laparoscopic minimally invasive surg
Professor Qin Mingfang of minimal incision surgical center of Nankai Hospital successfully completed choledocojejunostomy with manually assisted laparoscopic technique for a patient.
Manually assisted laparoscopic operation is the method recently acknowledged internationally as an innovated minimal incision procedure which is highly difficult and is at present mastered by surgeons only in a few developed countries. The procedure integrated the virtue of laparoscopic surgery with the conventional laparotomy having the advantages of performing complicated and highly difficult procedures, while simultaneously reserved the special features of minimal incision surgery characterized by less trauma, less agony and rapid recovery.
The patient undergone this surgical procedure was a female suffering from severe obstruction of the distal end of the common bile duct causing jaundice. Conventionally, this kind of patient must undergo surgery with an abdominal incision of as long as 20 cm, while the manually assisted laparoscopic procedure required only three incisions of 0.5-1.0 cm in addition to an adjunct incision of 5 cm; the operation was completed with the use of ultrasound knife and the intra-abdominal anastomosis apparatus. With the use of this technique the postoperative stay in the hospital was shortened from one month to one week. At present, the patient was already discharged from the hospital., http://www.100md.com
Manually assisted laparoscopic operation is the method recently acknowledged internationally as an innovated minimal incision procedure which is highly difficult and is at present mastered by surgeons only in a few developed countries. The procedure integrated the virtue of laparoscopic surgery with the conventional laparotomy having the advantages of performing complicated and highly difficult procedures, while simultaneously reserved the special features of minimal incision surgery characterized by less trauma, less agony and rapid recovery.
The patient undergone this surgical procedure was a female suffering from severe obstruction of the distal end of the common bile duct causing jaundice. Conventionally, this kind of patient must undergo surgery with an abdominal incision of as long as 20 cm, while the manually assisted laparoscopic procedure required only three incisions of 0.5-1.0 cm in addition to an adjunct incision of 5 cm; the operation was completed with the use of ultrasound knife and the intra-abdominal anastomosis apparatus. With the use of this technique the postoperative stay in the hospital was shortened from one month to one week. At present, the patient was already discharged from the hospital., http://www.100md.com