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"It is surprising to learn as to how laparoscopists have sustained their claims despite the lack of high-quality evidence."
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Laparoscopy"Pediatric laparoscopy appears to be too quickly adopted, unduly advertised and frequently misused by individual surgeons for their personal profit."
Laparoscopy is an operation performed in the abdomen or pelvis using small incisions with the aid of a camera. The laparoscope aids diagnosis or therapeutic interventions with a few small cuts in the abdomen.
"It is surprising to learn as to how laparoscopists have sustained their claims despite the lack of high-quality evidence."
"Many laparoscopists subconsciously use the term painless to mean less painful."
"Invasiveness of a surgical procedure is determined not by the length of the skin incision but by the stress response elicited in the host."
"Cosmesis and cost are not the end points of any abdominal surgery."
"If a plastic surgeon can inflict an acceptable scar in the face, cannot a pediatric surgeon replicate it in the abdomen?"
"Peeping toms are condemned; but peeping surgeons are hailed."