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Although not always the primary modality to treat the injured patient, laparoscopy has been used in trauma since the early twentieth century. In the 1920s, laparoscopy was first proposed as a means of identifying hemoperitoneum. In the 1960s, Hesselson performed the first diagnostic laparoscopy, and in 1976, Gazzaniga successfully used laparoscopy for evaluation of 37 patients who suffered abdominal trauma. A year later, Carnevale described the use of laparoscopy to evaluate patients with anterior abdominal stab wounds and tangential gunshot wounds with acceptable outcomes. Over the past 30 years, laparoscopy has become the standard in diagnosis and treatment of many surgical diseases. As such, the technology and availability of equipment, as well as surgeons’ ability, have all greatly improved.
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Melo, N., Margulies, D.R. (2017). Laparoscopy and Penetrating Trauma. In: Velmahos, G., Degiannis, E., Doll, D. (eds) Penetrating Trauma. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49859-0_18
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