General introduction The 20th century witmessed the development of laparoscopic surgical technologies and its successful applications in gynecological and general surgeries.In 1901,Russian doctor Dimitri Ott,for the f...General introduction The 20th century witmessed the development of laparoscopic surgical technologies and its successful applications in gynecological and general surgeries.In 1901,Russian doctor Dimitri Ott,for the first time,inspected the human a bdominal cavity with a speculum through a small incision,which marked the origin of the concept of minimally invasive techniques."During the following decades,clinical diagnosis of intra-abdominal lesions was performed by some doctors in Europe and the US.with instuments similar to modern laparoscopy.But it was until 1980s that modem sense laparoscopic surgeries,induding laparoscopic appendicectomy and laparoscopic cholecystectomy,were conducted.In 1989,Dr.Reich Harry performned the first laparoscopic hysterectomy,'which is regarded as a comerstone in the history of gynecologic surgery.Afterwards,laparoscopic surgery rapidly stepped into the mainstream of gynecology practice during the 1990s,delivered for both benign and malignant diseases.Starting from the 2000s,the master-slave mode ro-botic system,exemplified by the da Vinci@robot,has been accepted wordwide,and currently,robot assisted laparoscopic approaches have taken up a major proportion of general,urologic and gynecologic sur-geries,especially in developed countries.5 From a historical perspective,the broad application of laparoscopic surgeries nowadays stands on solid foundations established in decades of technical revolutions and refinements.展开更多
基金the National Key Technology R&D Program of China(2019YFC1005200).
文摘General introduction The 20th century witmessed the development of laparoscopic surgical technologies and its successful applications in gynecological and general surgeries.In 1901,Russian doctor Dimitri Ott,for the first time,inspected the human a bdominal cavity with a speculum through a small incision,which marked the origin of the concept of minimally invasive techniques."During the following decades,clinical diagnosis of intra-abdominal lesions was performed by some doctors in Europe and the US.with instuments similar to modern laparoscopy.But it was until 1980s that modem sense laparoscopic surgeries,induding laparoscopic appendicectomy and laparoscopic cholecystectomy,were conducted.In 1989,Dr.Reich Harry performned the first laparoscopic hysterectomy,'which is regarded as a comerstone in the history of gynecologic surgery.Afterwards,laparoscopic surgery rapidly stepped into the mainstream of gynecology practice during the 1990s,delivered for both benign and malignant diseases.Starting from the 2000s,the master-slave mode ro-botic system,exemplified by the da Vinci@robot,has been accepted wordwide,and currently,robot assisted laparoscopic approaches have taken up a major proportion of general,urologic and gynecologic sur-geries,especially in developed countries.5 From a historical perspective,the broad application of laparoscopic surgeries nowadays stands on solid foundations established in decades of technical revolutions and refinements.
