Toshiyuki Mori • Giovanni Dapri
Editors

2014

Few phenomena have changed the face of surgery like the widespread introduction of videoscopic technologies in the 1980s. For one thing, the technology allowed all members of the surgical team to view, on a video monitor, the same image of the surgical field inside the patient’s body cavity. More importantly, the surgeons’ hands were freed for more complex maneuvers. Thus, a dramatic increase in the adoption of laparoscopic surgery occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The method represented a less invasive alternative to the conventional open wound method and gained acceptance as the standard of care for many diseases.