During surgey: Use of ULTRASOUND within abdomen for safety
Gas is NOT filled in abdomen
LAPAROSCOPE used to magnify images
Does NOT have hazards unique to usual 4 hole surgery (Laparoscopic Surgery for Gall Bladder Stones)
Experience of over 4000 single hole surgeries
This minimal access surgery is called 'LAIOUSC'
(Laparoscopic Assisted Intraoperative Ultrasound Guided Single Hole Cholecystectomy)
During 2000 to 2009 : Presented at Millennium Surgical Conference ; 8th, 9th,10th & 11th World Congress Of Endoscopic Surgery, SAGES**annual meets 2002, 2004,2006 AND several other International meets including chapters of International College Of Surgeons & AMASICON***
In conferences which publish abstracts it is mentioned that :-
This technique of minimally invasive surgery has yet NOT been reported from elsewhere in the world
**SAGES: SOCIETY OF AMERICAN GASTROINTESTINAL & ENDOSCOPIC SURGEONS *** AMASICON: ASSOCIATION OF MINIMAL ACCESS SURGEONS OF INDIA CONFERENCE
To see the Largest Gall Bladder removed through this surgery : CLICK HERE
Important information for Surgeons:
Bibliography of "Complications of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy" & "Use of Intraoperative Ultrasound in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy" presented at 11th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery - Japan : Will be posted on this site shortly.