TY - JOUR
T1 - Laparoscopic abdominal surgery in 1993
T2 - a significant advance or the Emperor's new clothes?
AU - Cooperman, A. M.
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - Laparoscopic surgery is proven and efficacious for cholelithiasis, appendicitis, reflux esophagitis, and perforated ulcers. Future reports should be forthright and include cost of equipment, operating room time, and length of surgery so that meaningful analyses and comparisons to traditional surgery can be performed. Laparoscopic surgery is a developing field that will grow in spurts and not without pain or risk. As we sort out objectivity and follow-up data, we will discern fact from fantasy. The influence of industry on this field has been enormous and at odds with what current health administrators will reimburse for procedures. Laparoscopic surgery is not the emperor's new clothes; it has substance and fabric. Operations, like layers of vestments, will be added to and will adorn the surgical mannequin, adding only luster and finery.
AB - Laparoscopic surgery is proven and efficacious for cholelithiasis, appendicitis, reflux esophagitis, and perforated ulcers. Future reports should be forthright and include cost of equipment, operating room time, and length of surgery so that meaningful analyses and comparisons to traditional surgery can be performed. Laparoscopic surgery is a developing field that will grow in spurts and not without pain or risk. As we sort out objectivity and follow-up data, we will discern fact from fantasy. The influence of industry on this field has been enormous and at odds with what current health administrators will reimburse for procedures. Laparoscopic surgery is not the emperor's new clothes; it has substance and fabric. Operations, like layers of vestments, will be added to and will adorn the surgical mannequin, adding only luster and finery.
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M3 - Review article
C2 - 8049895
AN - SCOPUS:0027666282
SN - 1065-2477
VL - 1
SP - 192
EP - 198
JO - The Gastroenterologist
JF - The Gastroenterologist
IS - 3
ER -