Laparotomy (Open Surgery)
A laparotomy from the middle ages.
Laparotomy (open surgery) is being used less and less. The realisation that postoperative pain, complications and recovery times are related almost exclusively to the size and position of the initial surgical excision has contributed to the radical upheaval in the traditional surgical approach to intraabdominal pathology. Surgeons now perform almost all cholecystectomies (removal of the gallbladder) laparoscopically. Similarly gynaecologists may in future convert nearly all laparotomies to laparoscopies.
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