title: A new glove port for single incision procedure.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Ansan Hospital, Korea University Medical Center, Ansan, Korea.
authors.forename: Yoon Song
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Ko
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Ansan Hospital, Korea University Medical Center, Ansan, Korea.
authors.forename: Sam Youl
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Ansan Hospital, Korea University Medical Center, Ansan, Korea.
authors.forename: Hyung Joon
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Ansan Hospital, Korea University Medical Center, Ansan, Korea.
authors.forename: Tae Wan
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Yim
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Anam Hospital, Korea University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Tae Jin
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Song
keywords: Glove port; Laparoscopy; Single-incision