Description: Surgery - Laparoscopic.
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Surgery laparoscopic techniques are having a profound effect on the way abdominal procedures are being carried out. Known more colloquially as 'keyhole surgery', the whole system of laparoscopic surgery is based upon making as small an incision into the skin as possible, to carry out surgery with very small surgical instruments.
The theory is that this will cause less tension and damage to the physical body, allowing for fewer adverse reactions and a quicker recovery time. There are inevitably going to be some downsides, in that the size of the instruments and the remote operation inevitably mean more difficulty of operation.
Many people do not realize that laparoscopic surgeries have been around for over a century now, and believe them to be a relatively recent phenomenon. It was, in fact, right at the start of the twentieth century that pioneers of this technology first began carrying out these procedures on dogs. Exactly a century ago, the first successful operations were carried out on humans. The technology, however, only had very limited applications until the advent of electronics, and the ability for the surgeon to see r