Minimally invasive surgery
Laparoscopy
for kidney cysts and others
What is videolaparoscopy?
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Surgeries by "video" are techniques that use camcorders for the surgeon to see the place to be operated. Laparoscopy, therefore, consists of the surgical method that allows the surgical manipulation of the abdominal cavity without the need for large incisions.
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Through this technique, small holes made in the belly allow the placement of a camera and two or more graps inside the abdomen, so that procedures such as removal of the inflamed appendix, removal of the gallbladder with stones, resection of bulky renal cysts or correction of defects in the kidney and ureter.
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In place of the traditional scalpel and scissors, special grasps have been developed with the ability to grip structures, cauterize blood vessels and cut without bleeding that minimize blood loss and make the procedure faster, reducing the time of anesthesia.
Video surgeries are less aggressive to the body as they do not require large surgical incisions, but also allow a faster postoperative recovery with less aesthetic repercussion. In addition, for the surgeon, allows a sharper view of the area to be operated, as well as displaying a high resolution image, the cameras allow the image to be enlarged by up to 16 times.
Videolaparoscopy for kidney cysts.
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Before the advent of video surgery, bulky renal cysts were treated only by aspiration through a needle, such technique has as great disadvantage with high rate of recurrence of cysts. Currently needle aspiration is reserved for a few cases, with the majority of patients being submitted to videolaparoscopic procedures.
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The cysts have their contents emptied and part of their wall removed, in this way the chance of recurrence is minimal and the improvement of the symptoms is immediate. It is also possible to send the removed material for anatomopathological analysis, which allows the complete evaluation of the problem, with no doubts about its benignity.
