Laparoscopy Today

FROM THE 18th SLS ANNUAL MEETING: MULTIDISCIPLINARY PLENARY SESSION CANCER AND LAPAROSCOPY

Advanced Robotic Technique as a Surgical Treatment Option for Prostate Cancer
David Samadi, MD

What you leave behind is as important as what you remove. Robotic treatment of prostate cancer offers benefits over other approaches. 

19TH SLS ANNUAL MEETING CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Call For Abstracts PUBLICATION DEADLINE IS LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY! DON'T DELAY. Send your abstracts by FEBRUARY 1, 2010.  Abstracts received after this date may be presented,  but will not be published. Submit your abstract online.

FROM THE 18th SLS ANNUAL MEETING: MULTIDISCIPLINARY PLENARY SESSION CANCER AND LAPAROSCOPY

The Role of Laparoscopy in Pediatric Abdominal Malignant Tumors presented by Gustavo Stringel, MD, MBA & Cancer and Laparoscopy: Pearls and Pitfalls presented by Stephen Kavic, MD

Laparoscopy in the pediatric patient can be used for biopsy, resection, and to evaluate the need for resection. Malignant tumors occur in 1 to 2 of every 10,000 patients less than 15 years of age. 

SURGICAL SIMULATION FELLOWSHIP--UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

The Department of Urologic Surgery at the University of Minnesota is recruiting a Post Doctoral Associate for a one-year Gyrus ACMI-sponsored Surgical Simulation Fellowship.

The goal of this position is to provide a foundation for creating international leaders in the development, evaluation and delivery of surgical curricula enhanced by simulation.

SLS OFFERS A POWERFUL TRAINING TOOL FOR SURGEONS WORLDWIDE

by Ann Conti Morcos

“This is quite honestly the most impressive information available for surgeons today.” --Richard Satava, MD

“The mission of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons (SLS) is to provide information and education to surgeons worldwide,” said Paul Wetter, MD, chairman of SLS, at the Eighteenth SLS Annual Meeting & Endo Expo 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, September 9-12.

In line with this mission, SLS has just launched SLS TV, said Wetter. Now, no matter where you are in the world, if you have Internet access or an iPhone, you can view educational videos of the latest minimally invasive surgical techniques. For example, one video shows a case of transvaginal extraction of donor nephrectomy. 

FROM THE 18th SLS ANNUAL MEETING: SPECIAL MASTER'S CLASS LECTURE

"It’s hard to get cadavers these days,” said Dr. Gerald B. Healy in his talk “The Challenges Facing 21st Century Surgery.”

But that is just one problem facing surgeons today. Change in medicine is happening very quickly.

FROM THE 18th SLS ANNUAL MEETING: MASTER'S CLASS #1

Smart Surgeons Learn From Their Mistakes, Brilliant Surgeons Learn From Other Surgeons' Mistakes: Prevention and Management of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgical Complications

Howard N. Winfield, MD, discussed surgeons’ mistakes from the genitourinary (GU) perspective in his presentation “Prevention & Management of Urological Laparoscopic Complications.” The rate of complications increases

FROM THE 18th SLS ANNUAL MEETING: MASTER'S CLASS #1

Smart Surgeons Learn From Their Mistakes, Brilliant Surgeons Learn From Other Surgeons'Mistakes: Prevention and Management of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgical Complications

“All abdominal or pelvic procedures carry an inherent risk of bowel injury,” said Raymond J. Lanzafame, MD, MBA, FACS, in his discussion 

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