PubMed · 5839242
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J B Scholten. 1965. [Experiences with laparoscopy].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/5839242/
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Endoscopic surgical techniques were employed in 5 patients to harvest the sural nerve atraumatically with a minimal number of skin incisions. The medial sural nerve was harvested by two 2-cm-wide transverse incisions made under endoscopic-magnified visualization, which allowed the surgeon to see the detailed structure of the nerve and surrounding tissue. This method requires minimal traction of the nerve during nerve dissection, and postoperative pain and swelling were less than encountered with conventional methods, because the method we have employed is less invasive and atraumatic.
During the last years, clinical applications and studies of gynecologic endoscopy have gained increasing importance. With regard to vaginal surgery, questions arise about single and combined use of endoscopy and vaginal techniques. Beside sufficient pretherapeutic assessment and patient information, evaluation of these indications requires prospective randomized and comparative trials. Thus, the clinical impact of combined endoscopic and vaginal techniques can be assessed on the basis of objective data. The alternative to this kind of evaluation of new surgical techniques is uncontrolled human experimentation which is neither scientific nor ethical.
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