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Gastrointestinal surgery

    Jacques Marescaux

    Jacques Marescaux is Professor of Surgery and Chief of Digestive Surgery at the University of Strasbourg Hospital, France. He is also President and founder of the Institute for Research Against Digestive Cancer (IRCAD; Strasbourg, France), a uniquely structured institute advancing the field of surgery into the information era in the area of cancer in the digestive system. He is also the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Instituts Hospitalo-Universitaires, Strasbourg, France; a center of excellence aiming at developing image-guided, minimally invasive surgery and fostering technology transfer. In addition, he founded the European Institute for TeleSurgery (Strasbourg, France) as a training facility to disseminate the groundbreaking work at IRCAD. Mirror IRCAD institutes have been created in Taiwan and Brazil. In 2000, the IRCAD/European Institute for TeleSurgery implemented a virtual online university, WeBSurg, which encapsulates high-quality technology with high-speed multimedia communication systems to broadcast prerecorded surgical interventions. The website is available in five different languages (French, English, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese) and access is free of charge.

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    Michele Diana

    Michele Diana graduated in medicine at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Rome, Italy) and completed his residency in digestive surgery at the University Hospital of Lausanne (Switzerland). He joined the IRCAD team in April 2010 to attend a research fellowship in minimally invasive surgery and biodesign. His research fields include robotic surgery, natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery, laparoendoscopic single-site surgery, medical device biodesign and image-guided surgery. He has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and ten book chapters.

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    Published Online:21 Mar 2013https://doi.org/10.2217/ebo.12.425
    Abstract:

    In minimally invasive endoscopic surgery, the two basic senses used by surgeons during a procedure, vision and touch, are replaced with high-resolution cameras and monitors and low-profile instruments that enter the body through small incisions. This results in a sensible reduction of surgical scarring with enhanced recovery for patients, while respecting fundamental principles of open surgery.

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