A new way of opening a body cavity can be a revolution in surgery. In 1980s, laparoscopy
changed how surgeons had been working for years. Natural orifice translumenal …

In recent years, single access laparoscopic surgery (SALS) and natural orifice translumenal
endoscopic surgery (NOTES) have gained interest from both clinical and industrial point of …

Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is considered by some to be the
next revolution in surgery. To advance into clinical NOTES safely and responsibly, the …

The work of Muhe and Mouret in the late 1980s, paved the way for mainstream laparoscopic
procedures and it rapidly became the mainstream method for many intra-abdominal …

Laparoscopic surgery has generated a revolution in operative medicine during the past few
decades. Although strongly criticized during its early years, minimization of surgical trauma …

The development of minimally invasive surgery over the last 20 years has led to the near
extinction of several traditional open abdominal procedures. Although the first experimental …

Scarless surgery is the Holy Grail of surgery and the very raison d'etre of Minimal Access
Surgery was the reduction of scars and thereby pain and suffering of the patients. The work …

In the last 5 years, there have been major developments in minimally invasive surgery.
Although the impact of most of these pale in comparison to the development of laparoscopy …

Minimally invasive surgery started spreading worldwide in 1987, when the first laparoscopic
cholecystectomy was performed. Meanwhile, improvement of endoscopic equipment and …

It is more than twenty years ago that laparoscopy emerged to minimize operative trauma and
improve surgical outcome. In the dawn of this new era only simple operations such as …