Surgical Principles of Minimally Invasive Procedures

Section 1. General principles.- 1. Ergonomics of the minimally invasive operating theatre.- 2. Safety in the operating theatre.- 3. Access to the abdominal and thoracic cavity.- Section 2. Abdominal wall.- 4. Inguinal and femoral hernia (TEP).- 5. Inguinal and femoral hernia (TAPP).- 6. Ventral hernia.- Section 3. Oesophagus.- 7. Motility disorders.- 8. Hiatal hernia and reflux.- 9. Minimally Invasive Esophageal Resection.- Section 4. Stomach.- 10. Gastrectomy.- 11. Peptic ulcer perforation.- Section 5. Bariatric surgery.- 12. Selection of bariatric procedure.- 13. Gastric banding.- 14. Gastric by-pass.- 15. Sleeve resection.- 16. Duodenal switch.- 17. Redo surgery.- Section 6. Liver.- 18. Hepatic resection.- 19. Non-resection: Radiofrequency ablation, cryo, microwave.- Section 7. Galbladder and biliary ducts.- 20. Cholecystectomy.- 21. Surgical management of ductal calculi.- Section 8. Pancreas.- 22. Distal pancreatectomy, enucleation.- 23. Pancreaticoduodenectomy.- 24. Necrosectomy for acute pancreatitis.-Section 9. Spleen.- 25. Splenectomy.- Section 10. Small intestine.- 26. Adhesiolysis for bowel obstruction.- Section 11. Colon and Appendix.- 27. Appendectomy.- 28. Right colonic and ileocaecal resection.- 29. Left colectomy and sigmoidectomy.- 30. Total colectomy.- Section 12. Rectum.- 31. Low anterior resection, abdominoperineal resection.- 32. Prolapse.- 33. TEM.- 34. TAMIS.- Section 13. Thyroid & parathyroid.- 35. Thyroid and parathyroid.- Section 14. Adrenal.- 36. Adrenal anterior approach.- 37. Adrenal posterior approach.- Section 15. Innovative minimally invasive techniques.- 38. NOTES and hybrid NOTES procedures.- 39. Single incision surgery.- 40. Robotic surgery.

Hendrik Jacob Bonjer graduated from Medical School at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, in 1985. He was awarded his PhD from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in 1992 and the following year became a board-certified general surgeon. In 2004 Dr. Bonjer became Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery and Surgical Leader of the Renal Transplantation Program at Capital Health and Professor of Surgery at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. In 2006 he was appointed Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Capital District Health Authority and Dalhousie University. Since 2009 he has been Chairman of the Department of Surgery, Free University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Dr. Bonjer has been President of the Dutch Society of Endoscopic Surgery since 2000. He is a member of various professional bodies, including the European Association of Endoscopic Surgery, the International Society of Surgery, and the Society of Gastro-intestinal Endoscopic Surgeons. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of Surgical Endoscopy. Dr. Bonjer has been principal investigator for several clinical trials and has published almost 170 articles in peer-reviewed journals