Abstract Aim To assess the impact of simulated laparoscopic trainers on improving surgical trainees’ technical ability in completing a appendicectomy by measuring effect completion time and distance travelled with standard instruments. Method Six CT1 (early-stage) trainees little prior operative exposure were selected from North-West England Deanery to perform x10 exercises Augmented Reality La...

Appendiceal mucinous neoplasms are rare and account for just 0.6 percent of gastrointestinal malignancies approximately 0.7-1 appendicectomy specimens. Most the appendicular detected incidentally. We, herein, report images a case 76 years old male patient who presented with dull pain in lower abdomen palpable lump right abdomen. A contrast enhanced computed tomography scan revealed an ileo-coli...

BACKGROUND The construct validity of fresh human cadaver as a training tool has not been established previously. The aims of this study were to investigate the construct validity of fresh frozen human cadaver as a method of training in minimal access surgery and determine if novices can be rapidly trained using this model to a safe level of performance. METHODS Junior surgical trainees, novi...

Early reference to a form of endoscopy dates back to the time of Hippocrates. It wasn’t, however, until the turn of the last Century that the first experimental laparoscopy was performed. Georg Kelling used a cystoscope to examine the abdomen of a dog after first insufflating it with air [1]. Even though the rudiments of the technique are more than one hundred years old, operative laparoscopy d...