ESOPHAGOMYOTOMY

Although the invention of the first solid state camera was unveiled in 1982, it was not until 1987 before Phillipe Mouret would perform the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy. This event ignited the world of laparoscopic surgery. Today, 98% of all gallbladders removed surgically are removed with the laparoscopic approach. The shift from the open method of gallbladder removal to the laparoscopic method took fewer than 5 years to occur. During the past decade, a dynamic evolution in Minimally Invasive Surgery has occurred that has no equal in the history of surgery. Today, few abdominal surgical procedures escape the laparoscopic approach... Minimally invasive procedures for all diseases by the Chicago Institute of Minimally Invasive Surgery, the home of The Gentler Surgery.

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