SAGES 2009 Annual Meeting
Surgical Spring Week Presentations

April 22-24, 2009
Phoenix Convention Center
Phoenix, Arizona

∇ SS06: Scientific Session:
Single Incision / Single Port Laparoscopy

Moderators: Desmond Birkett, MD and Brian Dunkin, MD

This section of the SAGES Meeting includes panels with invited faculty who will speak on specific topics, and sessions of oral & video presentations of abstracts selected by the SAGES Program Committee.

S023 SINGLE PORT ACCESS (SPA) CHOLECYSTECTOMIES: MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL REPORT OF THE FIRST 100 CASES Andrew S Wu, MD, Erica R Podolsky, MD, Paul G Curcillo, II, MD, M Bessler, MD, L Cohen, MD, C Copper, MD, R Dunham, MD, S Fendley, MD, C Graybeal, MD, A Gumbs, MD, A Iannelli, MD, N Katkhouda, MD, W Kelley, MD, R Mason, MD, M Neff, MD, M Norton, MD, Department of Surgery, Drexel University, College of Medicine, Columbia University, College of Physicains, Kennedy Health System, Long Street Clinic, Richmond Surgical Group, University of Southern California, Unviersity of Nice- Sophia-Antipolis

S024 SINGLE INCISION LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY, INITIAL EVALUATION OF A LARGE SERIES OF PATIENTS Homero Rivas, MD, Esteban Varela, MD, Daniel Scott, MD, Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas

S025 LEARNING CURVE SEEN WITH SINGLE INCISION LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY Pratibha Vemulapalli, MD, Diego R Camacho, MD, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

S026 SINGLE INCISION LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY IS SAFE AND FEASIBLE Chris A Edwards, MD, Alan Bradshaw, MD, Pual Ahearne, MD, David Mauterer, MD, Peeter Soosaar, MD, Randall Johnson, MD, Ted Humble, MD, Pierre Dematos, Regional Surgical Specialists, Mission Hospitals, Asheville NC

S027 MICROLAPAROSCOPY: AN UNCOMPLICATED ALTERNATIVE TO NOTES AND SILS Keith Zuccala, MD, Pierre F Saldinger, MD, Danbury Hospital, Danbury, CT

S028 TRANS-UMBILICAL SINGLE-PORT LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDECTOMY Tea-Ho Hong, MD, HL Kim, MD, YS Lee, MD, KH Lee, MD, YK You, MD, JG Kim, MD, YH Kim, MD, Department of Surgery, The Catholic University of Korea

S029 SINGLE INCISION APPENDECTOMY FOR ACUTE APPENDICITIS: A PRELIMINARY EXPERIENCE Elie K Chouillard, MD, Abe L Fingerhut, MD, Poissy Medical Center (FRANCE)

S030 SINGLE PORT ACCESS (SPA) SURGERY: INITIAL 150 CASES USING A NOVEL LAPAROSCOPIC SINGLE INCISION APPROACH Paul G Curcillo, II, MD, Stephanie A King, MD, Erica R Podolsky, MD, Andrew S Wu, MD, Department of Surgery, Drexel University, College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

S031 CHOPSTICK SURGERY: A NOVEL TECHNIQUE ENABLES USE OF THE DA VINCI ROBOT TO PERFORM SINGLE INCISION LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY (SILS) Rohan A Joseph, MD, Michael A Donovan, MS, Matthew G Kaufman, BS, Nilson A Salas, MD, Alvin Goh, MD, Brian Miles, MD, Patrick R Reardon, MD, Brian J Dunkin, Department of Surgery, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas