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Single incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Great start and a long way to go.

Pankaj K Garg1.   

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Year:  2012        PMID: 23248449      PMCID: PMC3523459          DOI: 10.4103/0972-9941.103133

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Minim Access Surg        ISSN: 1998-3921            Impact factor:   1.407


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Dear Sir, I read the article “Single incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy: A review on the complications” by Fransen et al.[1] with great interest. I agree completely with the authors that single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) has to go a long way before it is accepted as a safe procedure. Moreover, claims of higher patient satisfaction rate following SILS, one of the main projected benefit of this procedure, have been recently questioned in two studies, one from India[2] and another from United Kingdom.[3] In a retrospective study from North India to compare SILS cholecystectomy and conventional laparoscopic cholecystectomy, Garg et al.[2] found similar overall satisfaction rates among the patients with the procedureof these two groups. In another retrospective study conducted in United Kingdom, Monkhouse et al.[3] found that 93% patientswere happy and extremely happy with the conventional laparoscopic cholecystectomy (using four ports). The study showed that cosmesis was the most important factor for only 13.5% of patients surveyed in their surgical experience, and received low priority by 35% of patients compared with other factors, such as ward cleanliness, surgeon experience, etc. The authors[3] questioned whether there is really any patient driven demand to change the established procedure. All said hitherto is not to thwart the newer developments in the field of minimal surgery. At present, SILS cholecystectomy seems to bear the same skepticism what people had for conventional cholecystectomy in its initial days of evolution.Only time will tell if the quest for improvement in minimal access surgery, the SILS, proves to clear the air.
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1.  Comparison of cosmetic outcome between single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy and conventional laparoscopic cholecystectomy: an objective study.

Authors:  Pankaj Garg; Jai Deep Thakur; Navin C Raina; Garima Mittal; Mahak Garg; Vikas Gupta
Journal:  J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A       Date:  2011-12-06       Impact factor: 1.878

2.  A retrospective wound review of standard four-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy: is there need for single-port laparoscopic surgery?

Authors:  S J W Monkhouse; E L Court; L A Beard; J Bunni; P Burgess
Journal:  Surg Endosc       Date:  2011-08-20       Impact factor: 4.584

3.  Single incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy: A review on the complications.

Authors:  Sofie Fransen; L Stassen; N Bouvy
Journal:  J Minim Access Surg       Date:  2012-01       Impact factor: 1.407

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1.  Single incision laparoscopic hepatectomy: Advances in laparoscopic liver surgery.

Authors:  Claude Tayar; Tayar Claude; Daren Subar; Subar Daren; Chady Salloum; Salloum Chady; Alexandre Malek; Malek Alexandre; Alexis Laurent; Laurent Alexis; Daniel Azoulay; Azoulay Daniel
Journal:  J Minim Access Surg       Date:  2014-01       Impact factor: 1.407

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