Single-port laparoscopy

The Single - Access Laparoscopic Surgery or Laparoscopic single access surgery is a surgical method of minimally invasive surgery with only one access. It is thus a special form of laparoscopic surgery. A common abbreviation for the term is the acronym SALS.

Principle

In contrast to other methods of minimally invasive surgery, this method requires only a single access to the surgical area inside the body. This is possible because the access thus both the imaging and the surgical instruments through this single opening up to the manipulation area can be placed in the body is done through the belly button and. The number of remaining scars is thus limited to one.

With this method, it is currently possible to perform gall bladder, stomach, blind, colon and hernia operations.