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Archive > October, 2009 Vol. X, No. 10

The Single Incision Evolution

Reducing the number of ports through which surgeons operate is shaping up to be the next big thing.

Daniel Cook, Managing Editor

In May 2007, the husband-and-wife team of Paul Curcillo, MD, FACS, and Stephanie King, MD, performed the first total transumbilical cholecystectomy in the United States. Today, Dr. Curcillo is helping to spearhead an evolution aimed at making single incision surgery accessible to all surgeons across all specialties. The many acronyms we have to describe the various single port approaches — SPA, SILS, OPUS — might suggest that leading surgical minds don't see eye-to-eye on which technique is most effective, but they all agree that reducing the number of ports through which surgeons operate is shaping up to be surgery's next big thing.

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