Początki laparoskopii w Krakowie. Nowości w chirurgii – wybrane zagadnienia
Laparoscopy, history of medicine, Cracow, robot surgery

Summary/Abstract: One surgical technique that has changed every-day surgical practice in the last two decades of the 20th century is laparoscopy. This technique dates from the beginning of the 19th century, but the most dynamic development was in the second half of the 20th century. We are indebted to the work of pioneers of minimally invasive surgical techniques and the development of technology. Laparoscopy has developed especially since the early 1990s. The first laparoscopic procedure was performed in Cracow by A. Bobrzyński at the Second Surgery Department of Cracow Medical University (11.06.1992), while the second was performed the next day by A. Cienciała at the Surgery Department of the Fifth Military Clinical Hospital (12.06.1992) with the assistance of E. Stanowski, a Polish pioneer of this technique. This technique became more popular and now is very common in Cracow surgery wards.

• Details
• Contents