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Totally laparoscopic abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
Y M Dion1, C R Gracia, H Ben El Kadi H
1Department of Surgery, Laval University, Québec City, Québec, Canada. dionyves@qbc.clic.net
Journal of Vascular Surgery
|January 4, 2001
Abstract:
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) resection is a major surgical procedure performed frequently. As a minimal access procedure, laparoscopy has been shown in the field of general surgery to improve a patient's postoperative well-being and to shorten hospital stay. The same benefits could be expected from a laparoscopic approach for AAA repair. We report what we believe to be the first totally laparoscopic AAA repair performed according to the principles of endoaneurysmorrhaphy.