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Study findings from University Hospital, Department of Urology provide new insights into surgery

Published in Hospital Business Week, April 26th, 2009

Fresh data on surgery are presented in the report 'Laparo-endoscopic single-site surgery: preliminary advances in renal surgery.' "We reviewed the preliminary advances in laparo-endoscopic single-site surgery (LESS) as applied to renal surgery, and analyzed current publications based on animal models and human patients. We searched published reports in major urological meeting abstracts, Embase and Medline (1966 to 25 August 2008), with no language restrictions," investigators in Stoke-on-Trent, the United Kingdom report.

"Keyword searches included: 'scarless', 'scar free', 'single port/trocar/incision', 'intraumbilical', and 'transumbilical', 'natural orifice...

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