What is single channel (single port) laparoscopy?

• It means the operation conducted by looking into the stomach through a small hole on a belly.
• Laparoscopy operation has a little surgical site, pain, or risk of bleeding and infection. The recovery after the surgery is also very short and it scarcely harms the appearance. Almost every minor cause or operation led by laparotomy including diagnosis and treatment of fibroid, ovary, ectopic pregnancy and infertility is possible by laparoscopy. Especially, in comparison with laparotomy in view of infertility treatment, it reduces the time required for a trial of pregnancy after operation, and raises a rate of pregnancy success.

Differences of single channel laparoscopy and existing laparotomy

	Laparotomy	Existing laparoscopy	Single port laparoscopy
Incision wound	A big one	3-4 cuts	One (cut on belly)
Length of wound	12~1㎝	2~2.5㎝	2㎝
Scar	A big one	3-4 scars	One that is hardly seen
Hospitalization period	3-7 days	1-3 days	1-3 days
Pain	Moderate	Mild (pain from several cuts)	Mild (reduced pain from one cut)
Recovery period	6-8 weeks	5-10 days	5-10 days

Possible cases of laparoscopy operation

• 01. Removal of fibroid
• 02. Abdominal hysterectomy
• 03. Endometriosis operation
• 03. Ectopic pregnancy operation

Pictures of single channel laparoscopy (published in SCI academic journal)

We have been offering the utmost medical services on the basis of more than 1,450 cases of operation since March 2010, when the first single channel laparoscopy operation had done, to June 2014.