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Single-port-access (SPA) laparoscopic surgery moves forward
Form USC Press release – Noted University of Southern California (USC) surgeon, Namir Katkhouda, M.D., has performed the first single-port-access (SPA) laparoscopic surgery on the West Coast, removing the gallbladder of a 20-year-old female patient at LAC+USC Medical Center on August 25, 2008.
The surgical technique, first performed in 2007 by doctors at Drexel University College [...]
Posted: September 17th, 2008 under Laparoscopic surgery.
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