In its most recent incarnation, minimally invasive surgery is only about 20 years old. Although the first laparoscopic procedure was performed in 1902, and the technique was practiced intermittently over the intervening years, it was not until 1987 that Philippe Mouret performed the first video-laparoscopic cholecystectomy in France. At the time, the profound effect the [...]
Nikkei said Liêm performed Asia’s first laparoscopic surgery on a child. Commonly used on adults, the procedure involves making small incisions in the abdomen, but is more difficult to perform on children because their bodies are smaller, leaving less room to work. Having learned minimally invasive surgery from French pioneer Philippe Mouret, Liêm was determined [...]
Liem performed Asia's first laparoscopic surgery on a child. Commonly used on adults, the procedure involves making small incisions in the abdomen, but is more difficult to perform on children because their bodies are smaller, leaving less room to work. Having learned minimally invasive surgery from French pioneer Philippe Mouret, Liem was determined to [...]
Despite these technological advances, it was not until after 1986, following the development of a video computer chip that allowed the magnification and projection of images onto television screens, that the techniques of laparoscopic surgery truly became integrated into the discipline of general surgery. The first laparoscopic cholecystectomy performed on a human patient was done [...]
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 [...]
On March 17, 1987, Philippe Mouret performed the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy, in Lyon, France. This date represents a profound epistemological leap: “before that, there was nothing, after that there was laparoscopic surgery.” Patients have deserted the waiting rooms of conventional surgeons and crowd into those of the laparoscopic surgeons. Moreover, laparoscopic surgery now forms a fundamental [...]
As a general surgeon in the 1960s, Phillipe Mouret (b. 1938) rotated on a gynecology service during which he had his first contact with laparoscopy. “At that time we used the instruments constructed by Palmer,” notes Mouret. “Since then I have brought my interest in that particular endoscopie technique into surgery.” Mouret shared his surgical practice with [...]