What is laparoscopy and laparoscopic surgery?

  Laparoscopy, similar to electronic gastroscopy, is an instrument with a miniature camera, and laparoscopic surgery is surgery performed using a laparoscope and its associated instruments: a cold light source is used to provide illumination, a laparoscopic lens (3-10 mm in diameter) is inserted into the abdominal cavity, and the images captured by the laparoscopic lens are transmitted via optical fibers to a posterior signal processing system and displayed in real time on a dedicated on a dedicated monitor. The surgeon then uses the images of the patient’s organs from different angles displayed on the monitor screen to analyze the patient’s condition and perform the surgery with special laparoscopic instruments. Laparoscopic surgery is mostly performed with 2-4 holes, one of which is opened on the navel of the human body to avoid leaving long scars on the patient’s abdominal area, and after recovery, only 1-3 linear scars of 0.5-1 cm are left on the abdominal area. surgery. The development of laparoscopic surgery has been a rapidly developing surgical procedure in recent years, as it has reduced the pain of incision, shortened the recovery period, and relatively reduced the patient’s expenses.  In 1901, Ott, a gynecologist in Petersburg, Russia, made a small incision in the anterior abdominal wall, inserted a speculum into the abdominal cavity and used a cephaloscope to reflect light into the abdominal cavity for examination of the abdominal cavity, and called this examination laparoscopy. In 1986, Cuschieri began animal experiments with laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and in 1988, at the first World Congress of Surgical Endoscopy, he reported a successful case of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in an experimental animal. In February 1991, Xun Zuwu completed the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy in China – the first laparoscopic surgery in China. 10 years later, more than 40 types of laparoscopic surgeries have been performed in China, with more than 1 million cases.  Laparoscopic techniques are most suitable for treating certain benign diseases as well as early tumors, such as windowing of liver cysts, resection of large intestinal tumors, repair of esophageal hiatal hernia with gastric folding, repair of extra-abdominal hernia, resection of gastric smooth muscle tumors, gastrointestinal cancer, repair of gastrointestinal perforation, and release of adhesive intestinal obstruction. In addition, for thyroid, breast, varicose veins of lower limbs, splenectomy for various causes of hypersplenism In addition, minimally invasive treatment can be performed for thyroid, breast, varicose veins of the lower extremities, splenectomy for various causes of hypersplenism, etc. with remarkable effects.