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LESS: Ports and Instrumentation

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A new era in medicine, minimally invasive surgery, has been initiated since the implementation of laparoscopy. As this field evolves, so does the push to further reduce the invasiveness of laparoscopic surgery. To achieve this goal, surgeons have begun limiting the number of abdominal incisions with laparoendoscopic single-site surgery (LESS) or eliminating them completely through natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES). The latter has been demonstrated primarily in preclinical animal models with limited clinical experience, while LESS has undergone laboratory and clinical work and has proven to be feasible and applicable for human intervention.

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    Michael A. White DO, FACOS

  2. Center for Robotic and Image-Guided Surgery, Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Q10, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA

    Michael A. White DO, FACOS & Robert J. Stein M.D.

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  1. , Department of Urology, East Surrey Hospital, Canada Avenue, Redhill, RH1 5RH, United Kingdom

    Abhay Rane

  2. , Department of Urology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical, Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, 75390, Texas, USA

    Jeffrey A. Cadeddu

  3. , Department of Urology, USC Institute of Urology, San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, 90089, California, USA

    Mihir M. Desai

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    Inderbir S. Gill

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White, M.A., Stein, R.J. (2013). LESS: Ports and Instrumentation. In: Rane, A., Cadeddu, J., Desai, M., Gill, I. (eds) Scar-Less Surgery. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-360-6_4

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