Technology for minimal access surgery

Tactile sensing technology for minimal access surgery––a review

Minimal access surgery (MAS), also known as keyhole surgery, offers many advantages over the more traditional open surgery. However, it possesses one very significant drawback–– the loss, by the surgeon, of the ‘‘sense of feel’’ that is used routinely in open surgery to explore tissue and organs within the operative site. Because of this, important properties such as tissue compliance, viscosit...

Minimal Access Surgery in Neonates

Despite the significant advancement of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) in the adults and even in pediatric population, its role as the standard of care in the neonates has not yet been established among the pediatric and neonatal surgeons universally. Lots of controversies still arise though several advanced centers in the world having very experienced surgeons performing MIS for neonatal surg...

Percutaneous minimal-access fetoscopic surgery for myelomeningocele - not so minimal!

Minimal access tricuspid valve surgery.

The minimally invasive, right mini-thoracotomy technique described can be applied to patients that require a concomitant tricuspid valve repair or replacement at the time of a mitral valve procedure. This has been the most common scenario where tricuspid valve surgery is performed. This approach is applicable to patients requiring isolated tricuspid valve surgery. In addition, patients who have...

Pediatric minimal-access surgery: update 2006.

Pediatric patients continue to benefit from the advances made in minimal-access surgery. Improvements in techniques and tools have made minimal-access procedures increasingly available to children. Growing popularity of laparoscopy and thoracoscopy has resulted in greater numbers of patients available for outcomes analysis. Randomized, controlled studies have been difficult to perform because o...