Single-Access Laparoscopic Surgery Current Applications and Controversies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pignata, Giusto (Editor), Corcione, Francesco (Editor), Bracale, Umberto (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Surgery.; Abdominal surgery.; Rectum > Surgery.; Minimally invasive surgery.; Surgical oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Minimally Invasive Surgery.; Abdominal Surgery.; Surgical Oncology.; Colorectal Surgery.

Single-access laparoscopic surgery (SALS), performed using a single transumbilical access, has recently proved to bring advantages over other forms of laparoscopic surgery due to the reduction in the number of incisions and the consequent decrease in morbidity, less blood loss and postoperative pain...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• 1.Introduction: From Multiport Laparoscopic Surgery to Single Port Laparoscopic Surgery
• 2.Single Access Laparoscopic Appendectomy
• 3.Single-access Laparoscopic Abdominal Wall Defect Repair
• 4.Single-access Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
• 5.Single-access Laparoscopic Surgery for Obesity
• 6.Single-access Laparoscopic Approach for Gastric Surgery (Hiatal Hernia Repair and Gastric Resections)
• 7.Single-access Laparoscopic Splenectomy
• 8.Single-access Laparoscopic Right Hemicolectomy
• 9.Single-access Laparoscopic Left Hemicolectomy
• 10.Single-access Laparoscopic Rectal Anterior Resection
• 11.Single-access Laparoscopic Approach for Pancreatic Surgery
• 12.Single-access Laparoscopic Liver Resections
• 13.Single-access Laparoscopic Approach for Gynecological Surgery
• 14.Single-access Robotic Surgery.