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Are Opioids Necessary?

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Archive > June, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 6

What's New in Minimally Invasive Surgery

A review of new products displayed at the SAGES meeting.

David Renton, MD

Once exotic and complicated, laparoscopy is the here-to-stay present and future of surgery. I've had the opportunity to try some of the newer instruments at Ohio State University College of Medicine, so it was interesting to see some of the prototypes I worked with as finished products on display at the SAGES conference in Las Vegas in April, where there was no shortage of innovative products. Here are the ones I thought you'd find most interesting.

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