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Minimally Invasive Pancreatic Surgery
Seminars in Oncology, 2015Pancreatic resection is a complex procedure that involves exposure of the retroperitoneal gland, dissection around major vascular structures, and management of an intricate organ, all of which results in a procedure associated with a high morbidity.
John A, Stauffer, Horacio J, Asbun
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Minimally invasive adrenal surgery
Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2001The adrenals can be approached endoscopically using either transperitoneal or retroperitoneal access, most surgeons favouring the transperitoneal flank approach with the patient in the lateral decubitus position. Endoscopic retroperitoneal adrenalectomy can be performed via either a posterior or a lateral approach.
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Minimally Invasive Orthognathic Surgery
Facial Plastic Surgery, 2009Minimally invasive surgery is defined as the discipline in which operative procedures are performed in novel ways to diminish the sequelae of standard surgical dissections. The goals of minimally invasive surgery are to reduce tissue trauma and to minimize bleeding, edema, and injury, thereby improving the rate and quality of healing.
Cory M, Resnick +2 more
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Minimally invasive parathyroid surgery
Surgical Endoscopy, 2000Minimally invasive access for the treatment of primary hyperparathyroidism is becoming widespread, but several different approaches have been proposed in the literature.We describe the three main types of mini-invasive parathyroidectomy, with particular attention to the gasless video-assisted procedure, which is now routinely performed at our ...
P, Miccoli, J M, Monchik
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Minimally Invasive Gastric Surgery
Surgical Clinics of North America, 2011The most common indications for gastric resection remain benign ulcer disease and neoplasm. Surgery for these diseases can be performed safely with laparoscopy. As surgeons adhere to the original tenets of open gastric resections while performing laparoscopic resections, disease outcomes will remain the same with the improved surgical outcomes of less ...
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Minimally invasive cardiac surgery
Surgical Endoscopy, 2006Cardiac surgery has been the last of the surgical specialties to embrace the principles of minimal invasiveness. The complexity and invasiveness of the procedures have presented both a problem and an opportunity to make the procedures less invasive.
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Minimally Invasive Epilepsy Surgery
NeuropediatricsAbstractSurgery remains a critical and often necessary intervention for a subset of patients with epilepsy. The overarching objective of surgical treatment has consistently been to enhance the quality of life for these individuals, either by achieving seizure freedom or by eliminating debilitating seizure types.
Douglas R. Nordli III +4 more
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Minimally Invasive Pituitary Surgery
The Laryngoscope, 2008AbstractObjectives/Hypothesis: Surgical approaches to the pituitary have undergone numerous refinements over the last 100 years. The introduction of the endoscope and the advent of minimally invasive pituitary surgery (MIPS) have revolutionized pituitary surgery.
Brent A, Senior +6 more
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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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