Enhancing laparoscopic performance with the LTS3E: a computerized hybrid physical reality simulator.

Objective: To determine the value of this simulator in acquiring basic laparoscopic skills and to evaluate the correlation between the frequency of trials and performance.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.

Chronic isolated torsion of the left fallopian tube: a diagnostic dilemma.

Background: Chronic tubal torsion is a rare clinical entity.

Case: A 15-year-old adolescent presented with an 18-month history of intermittent lower abdominal pain at our outpatient department after various preceding consultations with different physicians. She was asymptomatic and showed no abnormality on physical examination.

Georg Kelling (1866-1945): the root of modern day minimal invasive surgery. A forgotten legend?

On 23 September 1901, at the 73rd meeting of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians in Hamburg, following his lecture "On the inspection of the gullet and the stomach with flexible instruments", the surgeon and gastroenterologist Georg Kelling from Dresden performed a laparoscopy on a dog. He called this procedure coelioscopy. Kelling's ingenious idea to connect his oral insufflation device with the Fiedler trocar and the Nitze cystocope, led to the coelioscopy in 1901 and marked the hour of birth of laparoscopy.