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When keyhole surgery is appropriate?

studies on minimally invasive techniques

Bochum - For 15 years, conducted in Germany so-called keyhole surgery with minimally invasive surgical techniques. Gall bladder, appendix and part of the colon are now removed without an abdominal incision. Which patients benefit from surgery this technique is a subject of the press conference on 13 September at the Gastroenterology 2007: August 12 to 15 September in Bochum.

Minimally invasive surgical techniques delight patients, because they mean much smaller scars and usually shorter hospital stays. However, not everything that is technically possible to make sense. "There are a lot of - particularly benign - diseases, where the superiority or at least equivalence of minimally invasive surgical techniques compared with open operations studies showed," Professor says med Köckerling, president of the German Society of Visceral Surgery (DGVC ), Hannover.

depends in complex surgery in the abdomen and removal of malignant tumors, but success largely on the hospital and the training of the operator. Which interventions the superiority of minimally invasive procedures available science, experts explain the visceral surgery in Bochum.