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Recent advances in minimal access surgery

2002; BMJ; Volume: 324; Issue: 7328 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.324.7328.31

0959-8138

A. Darzi, Sean Mackay,

Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments

Minimally invasive surgery is the most important revolution in surgical technique since the early 1900s.Its development was facilitated by the introduction of miniaturised video cameras with good image reproduction.Laparoscopic cholecystectomy was the first procedure to be widely accepted, and several others are now well established.Other procedures are being validated, but further use of the technique may partly depend on the development of new enabling technologies.For example, a virtual reality laparoscopic simulator was recently used to assess the value of a three dimensional laparoscopic camera system. 1 We present an overview of advances in minimal access surgery, concentrating on procedures that have most recently become established in everyday surgical practice. MethodsWe selected the topics to be discussed after consultation with the other surgeons in our department.We then conducted a literature search (Medline