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Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery
2013Although it is known that the first thoracoscopy has been performed by Jacobeous when he introduced the cystoscope to look inside the chest the Viennese physician Josef Grunfeld reports in an article published in 1879 that, according to Samuel Gordon, Dr.
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Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery
Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 2001Cardiac surgery has been the last area of clinical surgery to adopt and embrace minimally invasive surgical techniques. Since the onset of arterial embolectomy in 1965, arthroscopic knee surgery performed in 1975 and laparoscopic cholecystectomy in 1985, huge advances in videoscopic, thorascopic and small incision surgery has taken place in all ...
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Minimally invasive thyroid surgery
Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2001Endoscopic surgery is often considered to be 'minimally invasive surgery' in the light of recent technical developments. Endoscopic neck surgery, including thyroid and parathyroid surgery, has developed rapidly over the past 2 years. The various techniques of thyroid surgery, including sites of incision and procedures for creating adequate working ...
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Minimally Invasive Antireflux Surgery
The American Journal of Surgery, 1998Previous reports of minimally invasive antireflux surgery for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) have been small, short-term series utilizing only a laparoscopic approach. We conducted a retrospective review and report our 66-month experience with more than 1,000 laparoscopic and thoracoscopic antireflux procedures.Between September 1991 and ...
J B, McKernan, J K, Champion
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Minimally Invasive Surgery and Diabetes
Foot and Ankle ClinicsDiabetic foot complications, encompassing diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs), diabetic foot osteomyelitis (DFO), and Charcot foot, are prevalent and debilitating conditions that often lead to infection, deformity, and limb amputation. These conditions substantially impact patient morbidity, health care costs, and quality of life.
Carlo Biz, Fabiana Mori, Pietro Ruggieri
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Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Knee
Journal of Perioperative Practice, 2007Minimally invasive knee replacement surgery has been developed in an attempt to lessen the impact of operations on the patient's quality of life, in the same way as arthroscopy, the forefather of minimally invasive surgery (MIS), revolutionised cartilage and ligament surgery three decades earlier.
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