New device for hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery.

Surg Technol Int

Associate Professor of Surgery, Director Minimally Invasive Surgery Services, Director UMass/Smith and Nephew Center for Research in Endoscopic Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School and University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care, Worcester, MA.

Published: October 2012

Laparoscopic surgery has undergone a rapid evolution since the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy of Erich Mühe in 1985. Many surgeons felt that further technological success would be related not only to increasing experience and skill of surgeons, but also technological advances which would enable surgeons to perform increasingly more difficult and complex tasks. Progress has been rapid for some, but broad acceptance by surgeons has been slow.

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