2. • Minimally-invasive surgery is a means of
performing major operations through
small incisions,
• often using miniaturized,
• high-tech imaging systems,
• to minimize the trauma of surgical
exposure .
• small holes, big operations
3. Historical
• Primitive laparoscopy, placing a cystoscope,
was first performed by Kelling in 1901
• In the late 1950s Hopkins described the
rod lens, with no heat and little light loss
• 4 By the mid-1970s rigid and flexible
endoscopes made a rapid transition from
diagnostic instruments to therapeutic ones
• Fluoroscopic imaging allowed the adoption
of percutaneous vascular procedures, the
most revolutionary of which was balloon
angioplasty
7. Laparoscopic surgery
• The unique feature of
endoscopic surgery in the
peritoneal cavity is the need to
lift the abdominal wall from the
abdominal organs.
• used by most surgeons, is the
induction of a
pneumoperitoneum.
14. Thoracoscopy
Without positive pressure, it is
necessary to place a double-lumen
endotracheal tube so that
the ipsilateral lung can be
deflated when the operation starts