Dr. Nikhil Jillawar is an eminent Laparoscopic Surgeon in Pune, providing specialized treatment in the field of Gastroenterology including Piles, Fistula/fissure treatment, Pancreatic Surgery, Trauma Surgery,
What’s Laparoscopic Surgery?
Conventionally, an open abdominal operation is performed using a large cut in the abdomen ranging from 6 to 12 inches in size. This helps the surgeon in attaining good exposure and perform the procedure on the organ of interest.
The term “ minimally invasive surgery” is inclusively used for any surgery which is performed using cuts lower than the traditional open surgery. This includes laparoscopic and robot-assisted surgeries.
What Are The Benefits Of Laparoscopic Surgery?
The benefit of laparoscopic surgery isn’t only limited to a better cosmesis. Laparoscopic surgery decreases the overall stress of the procedure and is thus associated with a drop in pain, shorter hospital stays, before initiation of diet, early discharge, and enhanced overall recovery, therefore, allowing the cases to return to their normal lives faster.
What’s Diagnostic Laparoscopy?
Laparoscopy can help in diagnosing conditions when a conclusion can not be reached using imaging modalities like ultrasound and CT scans. Laparoscopy done in such a situation is also called “ individual laparoscopy” and a biopsy, if needed, can also be obtained to establish the final diagnosis.
What’s Staging Laparoscopy?
Certain malignancies of the abdomen gallbladder and stomach cancer have a high propensity for peritoneal deposits. These cancerous deposits can be very small in size and are therefore not appreciated on a CT scan or PET scan. Laparoscopy is done for the purpose of discovering these small deposits is called staging laparoscopy and avoids an unnecessary procedure for these cancers.
