Advanced laparoscopy in our colorectal surgical practice

Introduction: Laparoscopy has gained wide acceptance for the treatment of gall bladder diseases. Despite the good international data the use of advanced laparoscopy is spreading quite slowly in Hungary. We publish the results of our series of patients operated with advanced laparoscopic technique Patients: Between October 2008 and February 2010 we performed 31 laparoscopic colorectal resections. We did 4 right hemicolectomy, 4 left hemicolectomy, 10 sigmoid resection 10 anterior rectal resection, 2 abdominoperineal rectal extirpation and one small bowel resection. In 23 cases the indication was malignant disease…