Surgery at Brockville General Hospital (BGH) covered new ground November 24th with the first laparoscopic colon resection performed in the hospital’s history. Laparoscopic surgery is done with small incisions and special, minimally-invasive equipment. This type of surgery has been done at BGH for gall bladder removal, but laparoscopic colon surgery for cancer is something new.
“The initial debate with choosing laparoscopic surgery over traditional methods always is whether this is going to be equivalent to traditional methods. Will the outcomes change, perhaps be not as good,” explains Dr. Karim Somani, BGH General Surgeon who performed the new surgery,
via http://www.hospitalnews.com.
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