Single-Incision Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Initial Report From the Turks and Caicos Islands

There has been no prior report of single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) from the Caribbean island of Turks and Caicos. We report our initial experience with SILS cholecystectomy to show that SILS in this environment is feasible with minimal change to the existing hardware. It is a safe alterna...

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Autores principales: Cawich, Shamir O, Burgess, Philip E, Ranglin-Robinson, Deonne, Ewing, Rufus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8180239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34109080
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14891
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author Cawich, Shamir O
Burgess, Philip E
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description There has been no prior report of single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) from the Caribbean island of Turks and Caicos. We report our initial experience with SILS cholecystectomy to show that SILS in this environment is feasible with minimal change to the existing hardware. It is a safe alternative to conventional multi-trocar laparoscopic cholecystectomy in this setting.
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spelling pubmed-81802392021-06-08 Single-Incision Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Initial Report From the Turks and Caicos Islands Cawich, Shamir O Burgess, Philip E Ranglin-Robinson, Deonne Ewing, Rufus Cureus General Surgery There has been no prior report of single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) from the Caribbean island of Turks and Caicos. We report our initial experience with SILS cholecystectomy to show that SILS in this environment is feasible with minimal change to the existing hardware. It is a safe alternative to conventional multi-trocar laparoscopic cholecystectomy in this setting. Cureus 2021-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8180239/ /pubmed/34109080 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14891 Text en Copyright © 2021, Cawich et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Single-Incision Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Initial Report From the Turks and Caicos Islands
title Single-Incision Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Initial Report From the Turks and Caicos Islands
title_full Single-Incision Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Initial Report From the Turks and Caicos Islands
title_fullStr Single-Incision Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Initial Report From the Turks and Caicos Islands
title_full_unstemmed Single-Incision Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Initial Report From the Turks and Caicos Islands
title_short Single-Incision Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Initial Report From the Turks and Caicos Islands
title_sort single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy: initial report from the turks and caicos islands
topic General Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8180239/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14891
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