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Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of BMI-Based Preoperative Administration of Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin in Morbidly Obese Patients Undergoing Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery
One of the most concerning and potentially fatal complications of gastric bypass surgery is pulmonary embolism (PE) with published rates exceeding 1%. Although this procedure has been proven effective in reduc...
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Reduced Port Surgery: Single Port Access to the Abdominal and Pelvic Cavity
The true definition of a “dilemma” is the presence of “two truths.” It does not always mean a person must choose between the alternatives, but at times face the dilemma that he or she needs to accept both trut...
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The Road to Reduced Port Surgery: From Single Big Incisions to Single Small Incisions, and Beyond
Single-port surgery has seen almost as rapid an application as multiport laparoscopy during the early 1990s. Hopefully, we will learn from our predecessors to apply the dictums of safety and science as we move...
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Reduced-port surgery: preservation of the critical view in single-port-access cholecystectomy
Over the past 3 years, minimal-access surgery has seen movement toward single-port-access (SPA) surgery. Since its inception in the spring of 2007, a number of differing approaches and technologies for reduced...
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Re: Single incision multiport laparoendoscopic (SIMPLE) surgery
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Single-port-access (SPATM) cholecystectomy: a multi-institutional report of the first 297 cases
An important aspect of a new surgical technique is whether it can be performed by other surgeons in other institutions. The authors report the first 297 cases in a multi-institutional and multinational review ...
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Single Port Access (SPA™) laparoscopic ventral hernia repair: initial report of 30 cases
Laparoscopic ventral hernia repair has been demonstrated to be an acceptable and successful technique. Aside from similar, albeit fewer, complications compared to open hernia repair, the laparoscopic technique...
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Single Port Access (SPA™) technique: video summary
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Single Port Access (SPA) Surgery—a 24-Month Experience
In April 2007, we performed our first single port access (SPA) surgical procedure. Beginning with simple procedures, we progressed to more complex procedures employing modifications of the initial technique.
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Single Port Access (SPA™) gastrostomy tube in patients unable to receive percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy placement
Access procedures for alimentation have been performed both endoscopically and surgically. In those patients in whom endoscopic tubes cannot be placed, the minimally invasive approach is a viable alternative. ...