World's first reported laparoscopic single-port distal pancreatic surgery

A team of abdominal surgeons at The Interventional Centre, led by Bjørn Edwin MD,PhD, has performed a laparoscopic distal pancreatic tumor removal and splenectomy using only one single incision. The team was the first in the world to report on use of this particular minimally invasive surgical access for this type of complex laparoscopy. The new, specially designed quad-port trocar device used for surgical intruments access was placed in the patients umbilicus. Customized, curved laparoscopic instruments were used to perform the surgery in a surgical procedure normally requiring at least 4 to 5 separate instrument trocars. By this technique the patient is left with less surgical scars, and the postoperative pain will be reduced due to less surgical trauma caused by the procedure. On the image the single trocar and the curved instruments (on the video screen) can be seen. An image of the post-operative surgical scar and the quad-port trocar can be seen in the Read More>> section.