One of the world's first Single Port Laparoscopic Liver Surgery Cases

A surgical team lead by Bjørn Edwin MD, PhD, from the Interventional Centre and Bård Røsok MD, PhD from Department of Surgery Rikshospitalet performed a laparoscopic liver resection with the LESS device from Olympus this week, and became among the first in the world to use this approach on liver metastasis surgery. The tri-port system was used, and an image from the procedure can be seen to the right. The LESS device potentially leaves the patient with only one small and practically speaking invisible scar after surgery.

Another procedure that recently has been performed with Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS from Covidien) technique is a cholcystectomy. This procedure was done by Elisabeth Hegstad MD, PhD, Bjørn Edwin and Arne Rosseland MD, PhD from the Interventional Centre earlier this spring. At the same time a similar procedure was performed for the first time in Denmark at Århus Hospital.