Aaron D Seims, MD, Robert T Russell, MD, Elizabeth A Beierle, MD, Mike K Chen, MD, Scott A Anderson, MD, Colin A Martin, MD, Carroll M Harmon. Children’s of Alabama. Introduction: As proficiency with single-incision pediatric endosurgery (SIPES) increases over time, more challenging operations such as splenectomy are being performed. While the ultimate goal is […]
Michiya Kobayashi, MD, PhD, Ken Okamoto, MD, PhD, Hiromichi Maeda, MD, PhD, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, MD, PhD, Tsutomu Namikawa, MD, PhD, Ken Dabanaka, MD, PhD, Daisuke Nakamura, MD, Koji Oba, PhD, Kazuhiro Hanazaki, MD, PhD. Department of Human Health and Medical Sciences, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Japan. We have established hand-assisted laparoscopic (HALS) splenectomy for patients […]
Ying Fan, Shuodong Wu. Department of the Second General Surgery, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, People’s Republic of China. Background Application of single-incision laparoscopic surgery(SILS) technique in splenectomy is still in its infancy with limited literature reports for limited indications. The purpose of this study is to study the feasibility […]
Giovanni Dapri, MD, PhD, FACS, Viola Zulian, MD, Maria Bortes, MD, Perrine Mathonet, MD, Guy-Bernard Cadiere, MD. European School of Laparoscopic Surgery, Brussels, Belgium. Background: Single-access laparoscopy (SAL) has been reported for adrenal gland surgery. This technique can also be applied for patients presenting giant and symptomatic diseases such as pheochromocytoma. Video: A 17-year-old woman […]
Heidi J Miller, MD, MPH, Rashad G Choudry, MD, Radi Zaki, MD. Albert Einstein Healthcare Network. We present a 63 year old healthy man with hypertension, who was evaluated for hematuria, at which time a 2.8 cm renal artery aneurysm (RAA) was identified by CT angiography. An unrelated bladder mass was discovered to be the […]