Gallstones and common bile duct calculi are found to be associated in 8%-20% of patients, leading to possible life-threatening complications, such as acute biliary pancreatitis, jaundice and cholangitis. The gold stan...Gallstones and common bile duct calculi are found to be associated in 8%-20% of patients, leading to possible life-threatening complications, such as acute biliary pancreatitis, jaundice and cholangitis. The gold standard of care for gallbladder calculi and isolated common bile duct stones is represented by laparoscopic cholecystectomy and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, respectively, while a debate still exists regarding how to treat the two diseases at the same time. Many therapeutic options are also available when the two conditions are associated, including many different types of treatment, which local professionals often administer. The need to limit maximum discomfort and risks for the patients, combined with the economic pressure of reducing costs and utilizing resources, favors single-step procedures. However, a multitude of data fail to strongly demonstrate the superiority of any technique(including a two or multi-step approach), while rigorous clinical trials that include so many different types of treatment are still lacking, and it is most likely unrealistic to conduct them in the future. Therefore, the choice of the best management is often led by the local presence of professional expertise and resources, rather than by a real superiority of one strategy over another.展开更多
The work of Muhe and Mouret in the late 1980s,paved the way for mainstream laparoscopic procedures and it rapidly became the mainstream method for many intra-abdominal procedures.Natural orifice transluminal surgery(N...The work of Muhe and Mouret in the late 1980s,paved the way for mainstream laparoscopic procedures and it rapidly became the mainstream method for many intra-abdominal procedures.Natural orifice transluminal surgery(NOTES)and Laparo-endoscopic single-site surgery(LESS)are very exciting new modalities in the field of minimally invasive surgery which work for further reducing the scars of standard laparoscopy and towards scarless surgery.However,according to objective assessment of the literatures,there is no clearly demonstrated benefit of NOTES(LESS),even cosmesis is poorly supported and had mixed results in the available data.NOTES(LESS)is far from the truly scarless surgery.Towards the Holy Grail,we have developed several techniques of creating nonvisible scar and named them as"Scar-hidden Endoscopic Surgery".With the rapid development of science and technology,we believe that minimally invasive surgery over the next2 decades will continue to bring remarkable change and realize truly scarless surgery even we may not be able to imagine what lies ahead.展开更多
文摘Gallstones and common bile duct calculi are found to be associated in 8%-20% of patients, leading to possible life-threatening complications, such as acute biliary pancreatitis, jaundice and cholangitis. The gold standard of care for gallbladder calculi and isolated common bile duct stones is represented by laparoscopic cholecystectomy and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, respectively, while a debate still exists regarding how to treat the two diseases at the same time. Many therapeutic options are also available when the two conditions are associated, including many different types of treatment, which local professionals often administer. The need to limit maximum discomfort and risks for the patients, combined with the economic pressure of reducing costs and utilizing resources, favors single-step procedures. However, a multitude of data fail to strongly demonstrate the superiority of any technique(including a two or multi-step approach), while rigorous clinical trials that include so many different types of treatment are still lacking, and it is most likely unrealistic to conduct them in the future. Therefore, the choice of the best management is often led by the local presence of professional expertise and resources, rather than by a real superiority of one strategy over another.
文摘The work of Muhe and Mouret in the late 1980s,paved the way for mainstream laparoscopic procedures and it rapidly became the mainstream method for many intra-abdominal procedures.Natural orifice transluminal surgery(NOTES)and Laparo-endoscopic single-site surgery(LESS)are very exciting new modalities in the field of minimally invasive surgery which work for further reducing the scars of standard laparoscopy and towards scarless surgery.However,according to objective assessment of the literatures,there is no clearly demonstrated benefit of NOTES(LESS),even cosmesis is poorly supported and had mixed results in the available data.NOTES(LESS)is far from the truly scarless surgery.Towards the Holy Grail,we have developed several techniques of creating nonvisible scar and named them as"Scar-hidden Endoscopic Surgery".With the rapid development of science and technology,we believe that minimally invasive surgery over the next2 decades will continue to bring remarkable change and realize truly scarless surgery even we may not be able to imagine what lies ahead.
