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New technology Surg Endosc (2004) 18: 1149–1150 DOI: 10.1007/s00464-003-8264-0 Springer-Verlag New York, LLC 2004 N. Ishikawa, M. Oda, H. Yasumatsu, G. Watanabe Department of General and Cardiothoracic Surgery, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa 920-8640, Japan Received: 2 December 2003/Accepted: 18 December 2003/Online publication: 12 May 2004 Key words: Endoscopy — Three-dimensional monitor crystal displays are used, by calculation, the operator recognizes the images as 80-in. displays 3 m ahead of — VATS him or her. Methods In recent years, endoscopic operations have become standard surgical methods [1]. One of the problems of The usefulness of this monitor unit was evaluated in terms of the time endoscopic surgery is the monitoring of images obtained required for thread ligation using forceps by five surgeons under by the optical scope. The operator has to observe the endoscopic guidance. Each surgeon ligated thread five times each using fixed monitor in an unnatural posture and perform a conventional two-dimensional monitor and our three-dimensional monitor, and the mean time was calculated. surgical manipulations based on two-dimensional im- ages. These problems hinder safe and rapid endoscopic surgery. To solve these problems, we developed a three- Results dimensional monitor unit that integrates the operator.
Surgical Endoscopy – Springer Journals
Published: May 12, 2004
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