This report was approved on May 6, 2014, by the members of the Board of Trustees, who
have no commercial, proprietary, or financial interest in the products or companies …

Background Evidence of benefits of laparoscopic and laparoscopic-assisted colectomies
(LAC) over open procedures in gastrointestinal surgery has continued to accumulate. With …

Background: Although hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery (HALS) has been proposed as
an alternative to laparoscopically assisted surgery (LAP), little is known about its role in total …

Blackground We compare the use of the HandPort TM device in hand-assisted laparoscopic
surgery (HALS) to standard laparoscopic surgery (SLS) in the treatment of colorectal …

Background: We compared the perioperative parameters and outcomes achieved with hand-
assisted laparoscopic colectomy (HALC) vs open colectomy (OC) for the management of …

In September 1985, Eric Muhe performed the first human laparoscopic cholecystectomy [1].
As is often the case, this revolutionary technique was not readily embraced by the surgical …

Recent publicity and some scientific reports suggest increasing success in treating an entity
called “sports hernia,” more accurately named athletic pubalgia. The primary purpose of this …

Hypothesis Laparoscopic splenectomy (LS) is the procedure of choice for elective
splenectomy. Splenomegaly may preclude safe mobilization and hilar control using …

Objective: To prove the feasibility of hand-assisted laparoscopic liver resection for tumors
located in the posterior portion of the right hepatic lobe. Summary Background Data: Use of …

Background Hand-assisted laparoscopic colectomy has been introduced as an alternative to
the standard laparoscopic technique, but it has not yet been established whether it offers the …