A surgical team has completed laparoscopic cholecystectomy with a novel surgical system that can remove a diseased gallbladder through the smallest incision hidden in the umbilicus. This article briefs the procedure platform and the benefit of the technique. Although open surgery is performed in few complicated cases, laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the current practice for the surgical removal of the diseased gallbladder. The procedure involved an incision at the umbilicus and three other incisions on the parts of the abdomen.
Newer strategies are constantly being tried and tested to make the procedure least invasive possible. The current advancement is Single-Site Cholecystectomy procedures that use the robotic platform. In general, the single incision through the umbilicus has a diameter of 2.5 cm or bigger. However, the latest surgery performed using an FDA approved platform had an…
