Ann Surg Treat Res.  2015 Nov;89(5):284-286. 10.4174/astr.2015.89.5.284.

A new glove port for single incision procedure

• Ko YS
• Yoon SY
• Han HJ
• Yim TW
• Song TJ

• KMID: 2095536
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4174/astr.2015.89.5.284

Abstract

Single-incision laparoscopic surgery has gained increasing attention due to its potential to improve the benefits of laparoscopic surgery. However, inconvenience remains for inexperienced surgeons during surgery when instruments conflict with each other, and a glove port is used hesitantly for such diagnosis related groups (DRG) because of its high cost. Authors made a new glove port by an odd surgical gloves and one wound protectors. This glove port is ease to make besides being convenient to us, and inexpensive. This new glove port has the benefit of easy utilization and cost effectiveness for surgeons performing single-incision laparoscopic surgery.

Keyword

Glove port; Laparoscopy; Single-incision

MeSH Terms

Cost-Benefit Analysis
Diagnosis-Related Groups
Gloves, Surgical
Laparoscopy
Wounds and Injuries

Figure

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  Fig. 1 Commercialized glove port (Nelis, Seoul, Korea).

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  Fig. 2 Troca-combined glove port.

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  Fig. 3 Surgical procedure: Wound protector (A) applied on the umbilical incision (B) by making a hole on the finger of glove (C). Then, instruments were inserted via finger holes (D).

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