Changes in Performance of More Than 1000 Minimally Invasive Liver Resections

Video assisted resections. Increasing access to minimally invasive liver surgery?

OBJECTIVE To evaluate perioperative outcomes, safety and feasibility of video-assisted resection for primary and secondary liver lesions. METHODS From a prospective database, we analyzed the perioperative results (up to 90 days) of 25 consecutive patients undergoing video-assisted resections in the period between June 2007 and June 2013. RESULTS The mean age was 53.4 years (23-73) and 16 (6...

Minimally Invasive Robot – Assisted Colorectal Resections

Anatomic lung resections using minimally invasive thoracic surgery (MITS).

We have designed a minimally invasive thoracic surgery (MITS), which, in this report, we compare to the conventional muscle-sparing thoracotomy (MST). We retrospectively compared 70 consecutive MITS patients (mean age, 65 years) and 70 consecutive MST patients (mean age, 60 years) who underwent thoracotomies for similar pathologies between 1995 and 1997. All comparisons between the MITS and MST...

Outcomes after minimally invasive esophagectomy: review of over 1000 patients.

BACKGROUND Esophagectomy is a complex operation and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. In an attempt to lower morbidity, we have adopted a minimally invasive approach to esophagectomy. OBJECTIVES Our primary objective was to evaluate the outcomes of minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) in a large group of patients. Our secondary objective was to compare the modified McK...

Minimally Invasive Treatment of Liver Hydatidosis

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Open surgery has been the mainstay treatment for liver hydatidosis in the past. Today, for treatment of simple and uncomplicated cysts, we have a variety of choices: antihelmintic therapy, the PAIR (puncture, aspiration, injection, and respiration) technique, and the laparoscopic approach. We reviewed our series of 267 cases of hepatic hydatidosis submitted to surgery ...