“Scarless” Laparoscopic Surgery – Single Port Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Minimal trauma has always been a tenet of surgery, and it is also the higher level that the surgical community strives for. With this in mind, surgery has undergone a transition from traditional open surgery to laparoscopic surgery, which has been hailed as the “second revolution”, and is currently undergoing an evolution from multi-port laparoscopic surgery to single-port laparoscopic surgery. 1969, Wheeless reported the first single-port laparoscopic tubal ligation, and to date, single-port laparoscopic surgery has undergone 40 centuries. Single-port laparoscopic surgery has been performed for 40 years. At present, the clinical implementation of single-hole surgery mainly refers to the transumbilical single-hole laparoscopic surgery. Because of the obvious cosmetic effect, mild postoperative pain, fast recovery, low rate of puncture hernia and puncture infection and other advantages, single-port laparoscopic surgery has become the most feasible “no scar” technology at this stage. The umbilicus is the only scar inherent in the body. The length of the umbilical incision in single-port laparoscopic surgery is about 10-20mm, because the umbilical skin folds can cover the incision, so as to achieve the purpose of scarless surgery, with satisfactory cosmetic effect, and at the same time, it can reduce the postoperative pain, thus reducing the amount of anesthesia and analgesic drugs used in the operation and the postoperative period. The patient’s postoperative recovery is quicker, hospitalization time is shorter, and hospitalization costs are reduced accordingly.