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Surgical movie section detailing various new procedures as well as presentations on robotic and minimally invasive surgery. The movies include technical presentations regarding new surgical techniques and research being performed in the SLRHC Minimally Invasive Laboratory.
Image reversal in Natural Orifice Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) is underestimated in procedures attempted with laparoscopic instruments that only afford four degrees of freedom. Robotic NOTES that...
Robotic Assisted CABG Using an Endoscopic Stabilizer: The Da Vinci system was originally introduced to the United States market with the conception of facilitating the TECAB procedure- the...
The implementation of diagnostic imaging as a means of navigating during surgery has been a focus of interest with recent advances in technology. The impetus for development lies in the potential...
Video Assisted Thoracic Sympathectomy for hyperhydrosis sometimes results in debilitating compensatory sweating. We propose a novel minimally invasive treatment to reverse sympathectomy by...
Fundamentals of proper surgical suturing require an opposition of tissue planes in a manner that facilitates healing while limiting the inflammatory response and damage to surrounding tissue....
Currently several surgical approaches are used for thymectomy in patients for benign disease. This video demonstrates a robotic thymectomy performed for resection of a mediastinal parathyroid...
Internal hernia is a frequent and potentially grave complication of a gastric bypass occuring with an incidence of 1.5-5%. If the Roux-limb is retrocolic and antegastric there are three...
Late aneurysm formation is a well-described complication after surgical correction of aortic coarctation. Endovascular repair of such aneurysms avoids the morbidity of conventional reoperative...
As a pliable muscular tube that spans three body compartments in close proximity to the great vessels, the esophagus and its anatomic design impart formidable challenges for the surgeon....