Cutting around corners: Endo-Periscope increases surgeon's scope

Cutting around corners: Endo-Periscope increases surgeon's scope

Van Kasteren, J.

2001

Many surgeons find it difficult to perform laparoscopies, operations performed inside the abdominal cavity without opening the abdominal wall. These keyhole operations are particularly taxing due to a lack of depth perception and impaired hand-eye coordination. Consequently, the method has been used for relatively simple operations only. A new type of endoscope, the Endo-Periscope developed in Delft and Tokyo, offers an ingenious solution to the problems. It is based on a new operating principle using a three-dimensional parallelogram mechanism, for which a worldwide patent application has been filed. Another patent for the actual implementation of the principle, a new type of spring,has also been filed.

endo-periscope
laparoscopies
abdominal wall

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