Surgery
Volume 24, Issue 7 , Pages 229-233, 1 July 2006

Abdominal access techniques (including laparoscopic access)

  • FKS Welsh, FRCS(Gen Surg)

      Affiliations

    • F K S Welsh FRCS(Gen Surg) is a Consultant Hepatobiliary and General Surgeon at North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke, UK.
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  • S Singh, FRCS

      Affiliations

    • S Singh FRCS is a Consultant General Surgeon at Frimley Park Hospital, Frimley, UK.

Abstract 

This contribution discusses safe exposure of intra-abdominal organs using laparoscopy and laparotomy; extraperitoneal access is not considered in detail.

Keywords:  abdominal surgery , Trendelenberg position , Lanz , Rutherford-Morrison , Gridiron , Pfannensteil , laparoscopy , Veress needle , gassless laparoscopy , extraperitoneal space , laparotomy , diathermy

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PII: S0263-9319(06)70709-8

doi:10.1383/surg.2006.24.7.229

Surgery
Volume 24, Issue 7 , Pages 229-233, 1 July 2006

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