Laparoscopy teleconference lecture from Oslo to Zarajevo

Today dr. Bjorn Edwin, senior abdominal surgeon at the Interventional Centre and the Department of Surgery at Rikshospitalet, gave a teleconference lecture on laparoscopic distal pancreas resection to the staff at Department of Abdominal Surgery at Zarajevo University Hospital in Bosnia and Hercegovina. Dr. Edwin has a patient material in distal laparoscopic pancreatic resection of more than 170 patients, some dating back to 1997. He described the patient population in general including follow-up results indicating a shift towards treating this patient group not as acute cases but cases with chronic disease and long time survival with laparoscopic treatment. Then he went on to describe surgical techniques and important issues related to dissection, anatomical landmarks and surgical instruments. Finally dr. Edwin presented a number of cases in a video. The session was ended with some comments and remarks from Zarajevo, and the conclusion was to establish a closer collaboration between the two surgical centres.