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What's the Harm? - December 2015 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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Is mini-lap a difficult technique to master? Dr. Novitsky: The techniques are nearly identical — you're just using smaller instruments and incisions. Whether you use mini-lap depends on the surgeon's skills, the patient's body habitus, and if the smaller tools and incisions are appropriate for that procedure. Dr. Reardon: Making the move to mini-lap from laparoscopy is fairly easy, especially if you're converting to 3 mm instruments. I originally started using mini-lap in 1996, after a rep brought in the technology and asked if he thought I could use it. Funny enough, a gallbladder case came into the hospital while the rep was there, and I asked if we could test out the technology right away. That case went so smoothly that we've now grown to use 2 mm and 3 mm instruments in nearly all of our procedures. 1 1 2 O U T P A T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 5 Yuri Novitsky, MD, FACS Dr. Novitsky is a professor of sur- gery, director of the Case Comprehensive Hernia Center and director of the advanced GI surgery and MIS Fellowship at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Patrick Reardon, MD, FACS Dr. Reardon is the chief of mini- mally invasive surgery and chief of foregut surgery at Houston (Texas) Methodist Hospital and professor of clinical surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. Paul G. Curcillo, II, MD, FACS Dr. Curcillo is the director of mini- mally invasive surgical initiatives and development at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, Pa. Meet Our Experts

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