Single Port Laparoscopy

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Single Port Laparoscopy, also known as "Single Port Surgery", "Single Incision Laparoscopy" or "Single Port Access" is the newest frontier in Laparoscopic Surgery. Laparoscopic surgery involves inflating the abdomen with an inert gas (CO2) and performing an operation seen through a thin camera tube along with several long thin instruments inserted through separate "ports" or trocars. Single Port Laparoscopy uses just one port buried in the belly button to accommodate both the instruments and the camera. This would eliminate the use of up to 4 to 5 separate trocars for the performance of typical laparoscopic procedures and would potentially leave the patient with no visible scars.

So far different versions of this technique has been used worldwide.