Mouret gained worldwide preeminence in 1987 by performing the first video-assisted laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The effects of this one day reverberated throughout the entire field of surgery, medicine, and beyond. In the aftermath of this revolution, not only had every single discipline of endoscopy been affected, but most astonishingly, the entire field of general surgery was transformed right down to its very core.
Indeed, we had arrived at the ultimate turning point in the history of laparosocopy. There is simply no other singular moment that encapsulates all that the minimally invasive movement had been leading toward all those years.
