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Chapter-08 Principles of Minimal Access Surgery/Minimally Invasive Surgery

BOOK TITLE: General Surgical Operations

Author
1. Choudhury Dhiraj
ISBN
9788184481952
DOI
10.5005/jp/books/10324_8
Edition
1/e
Publishing Year
2008
Pages
2
Author Affiliations
1. Peerless Hospital and Ruby General Hospital, Kolkata, Peerless Hospital and Ruby General Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Abstract

The term minimal access surgery or minimally invasive surgery indicates surgical innovation which aims to achieve surgical therapeutic goal with minimal physical and psychological trauma with the help of modern technology. It includes laparoscopic abdominal surgery, thoracoscopic surgery, endoluminal surgery, perivisceral endoscopic surgery. It has indications, limitations, advantages and disadvantages.

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