[A century of developmental history of laparoscopic surgery].
Till the year 2001, the development of laparoscopic surgery will have gone through a total of one hundred years. Laparoscopic surgery has made a great progress during the last more than a decade. In retrospect its history, the development of laparoscopic surgery underwent three main eras, viz. diagnostic laparoscopy, operative laparoscopy and the modern laparoscopy era. Although the laparoscopic technology started rather late in China, it develops very quickly. Along with the development of high -- tech, laparoscopic surgery will have a promising future.
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Xiehe Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022.
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D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000266:history*