What Is Laparoscopy?
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| Surgery Nephrectomy Laparoscopy |
- Advances in fiber-optic technology and the miniaturization of video equipment have revolutionized surgery.
- Procedures that once required major incisions, general anesthetics, and long recoveries can now be done with local numbing and a small slit or two.
- Laparoscopy is performed on major abdominal organs by means of a tube called an endoscope, fitted with a fiber-optic light, a video device, and a minuscule surgical instrument.
- The video device slid into the abdominal cavity through a small incision, provides visual guidance as the surgeon manipulates tools also inserted through a small incision.
- Tubal ligations, appendectomies, gall bladder removal producers, and many other operations can now be accomplished through laparoscopy.
- Arthroscopy uses similar technologies to examine and joints and bones.
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