The advantages of Minimally Invasive Surgery include the following:

Personal Care

Our Minimally Invasive Surgery Center is leading the way into a new era of surgical treatment, challenging the conventional with pioneering techniques and leading-edge technologies that promise to revolutionize the management of many diseases and conditions.

The Minimally Invasive Surgery Center mission is to advance research and education in minimally invasive surgery across all disciplines and specialties, in the United States and throughout the world. The Minimally Invasive Surgery Center is dedicated to refining current minimally invasive techniques, expanding applications of minimally invasive surgery and investigating new technology to achieve these goals without compromising quality or outcome of care.  

Small Incision

Minimally invasive surgery uses a thin, telescope-like instrument called an endoscope, which is inserted through a small incision. The endoscope is connected to a tiny video camera – smaller than a dime – which projects a view of the operative site onto video monitors located in the operating room. Additional small incisions are made near the endoscope through which the surgeon inserts specialized surgical instruments. The surgeon manipulates these instruments to perform the operation.

After several years of performing minimally invasive surgery, we have learned that minimally invasive surgery techniques often result in dramatic postoperative benefits. Patients undergoing minimally invasive surgery may realize such benefits as reduced postoperative pain, shorter hospital stays, a quicker return to daily activities, and less scarring.  

Quick Recovery

Minimally invasive surgery offers many attractive advantages over conventional surgery, beyond the cost-savings associated with shorter hospital stay and faster recovery. The difference to patients is apparent almost as soon as the procedure is completed. Without a large incision, post operative pain is much less and the healing process is more rapid. After a minimally invasive procedure, patients are often up and walking within 24 hours. Best of all, they can go home within a few days after surgery and complete their recuperation in the comfort and familiar surroundings of their own home.

In most cases, patients return to their surgeon for a follow-up visit after the operation, then are cared for as needed by their own physician in the community.