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Abdominal wall lift

Low-pressure pneumoperitoneum laparoscopic surgery

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A method of abdominal wall lift has been developed and evaluated clinically in this unit during the past 18 months. It permits the conduct of laparoscopic procedures at an intraabdominal pressure of 6–8 mm Hg. The technique was introduced for laparoscopic surgery in patients with preexisting cardiac disease and chronic bronchitis. The procedure, by lifting both the abdominal wall and the falciform ligament together, also elevates the central portion of the liver (segments 3–5), thereby improving the surgical exposure. For this reason it is now also used in fit patients with ptotic livers or hypertrophied quadrate lobes undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy and common bile duct exploration, and to facilitate left subhepatic exposure in patients during laparoscopic antireflux surgery and vagotomy.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, DD1 9SY, Dundee, Scotland UK

    S. Banting, S. Shimi, G. Vander Velpen & A. Cuschieri

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Banting, S., Shimi, S., Vander Velpen, G. et al. Abdominal wall lift. Surg Endosc 7, 57–59 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00591240

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