HAND-ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPIC PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY AFTER 50 CASES AS COMPARED TO OPEN PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMYBill DeVoe BS, Kent Kercher MD, William Hope MD, Amy Lincourt PhD, Chris Teigland MD, Departments of Surgery and Urology, Carolinas Medical CenterIntroduction: The surgical standard of care for favorably located, small renal tumors is partial nephrectomy. As the incidence of renal cell […]
Restorative proctocolectomy (RPC)is one of the more complex operations in colon and rectal surgery.It has evolved extensively and the most recent controversy is the adoption of the laparoscopic approach.There is limited short-term data comparing the open and laparoscopic approach for RPC.This is a comparative study for the short-term outcomes and impact on closure of loop […]
This video illustrates our laparoscopic technique for removal of an insulinoma in the tail of the pancreas. Because of the distal location of the lesion in the tail of the pancreas, distal pancreatectomy with splenectomy was required. The video also shows how bleeding from a splenic vessel was controlled laparoscopically. A hand port was required […]
Simulators with haptic feedback may not be justified if its benefit is not applicable in surgical skills training. We hypothesized that trainees would reach the first plateau in their learning curve earlier when trained using simulators with haptic feedback, compared with those who trained without haptic feedback. Fifteen novices were randomly assigned to either the […]
Introduction: Although NOTES peritoneoscopy has been widely performed, the image quality acquired with flexible endoscopes has never been directly compared with the current gold standard of the rigid laparoscope. The purpose of the current study was to assess and compare the image quality derived from the flexible endoscope versus the rigid laparoscope during exploratory peritoneoscopy. […]