RT Book, Section A1 Hunter, John G. A1 Spight, Donn H. A1 Sandone, Corinne A1 Fairman, Jennifer E. SR Print(0) ID 1162530840 T1 Single-Incision Cholecystectomy T2 Atlas of Minimally Invasive Surgical Operations YR 2018 FD 2018 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071449052 LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1162530840 RD 2024/03/29 AB Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is currently regarded as the procedure of choice for the treatment of symptomatic gallbladder disease. Current techniques include variations on a three- or four-port approach that are generally well tolerated by the vast majority of patients. However, postoperative abdominal, incisional, and shoulder pain still occurs in most patients and persists for a number of days after the procedure. To counter this, laparoscopic techniques continue to evolve in order to minimize scarring and accelerate recovery. Natural-orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), for example, is a technique first introduced in 2005 that attempts to address certain intraabdominal pathology by purely endoscopic techniques. Its application continues to be investigated at this time. Another technique, single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS), which was first reported in 1997 and further refined in 2008, has entered into mainstream clinical practice. SILS techniques have now been applied to a number of different procedures, but the most established application for this technique has been for cholecystectomy.