Dramatic Advantages of Laparoscopic Surgery

Minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery as performed by surgeons Scott A. Shikora, MD and Michael Tarnoff, MD offers dramatic advantages to the patient in the many cases in which it can be performed in place of traditional open surgeries. It involves less risk than open surgery, reduces the possibility of infection, and disturbs far fewer anatomic structures.

Laparoscopic surgery offers the overall advantage of a much shorter recovery time than is typically associated with open surgery. Patients can resume normal activity surprisingly quickly, often in a day or two, depending on the surgery required.

Moreover, laparoscopic surgery offers major cosmetic advantages because it eliminates large incision scars.In fact, scars from laparoscopic surgical procedures are so small (some only a quarter inch in size) as to be nearly undetectable.

Not only does minimally invasive surgery offer obvious advantages to a person faced with surgery, but laparoscopic surgery costs no more than standard open surgeries. And, it is fully covered by health insurance.

Finally, laparoscopic surgery is advanced surgery, but it’s not experimental. It has been practiced and refined for more than 20 years.

Laparoscopic surgery:

• costs no more than open surgery.
• is covered completely by insurance when ordered by your primary care physician.
• allows you to get back to your normal life more quickly than open surgery.
• is performed at New England’s newest and most advanced operating theatre: Boston’s Tufts Medical Center.
• takes advantage of the finest-quality instruments and systems, including Stryker Corporation’s advanced laparascopic surgery products.

How to find out if laparoscopic surgery by doctors Shikora and Tarnoff is right for you:

• Is our hospital on the appropriate network to provide this service to you?
  Check with your primary care physician.
• If your medical situation cannot be treated through doctor-directed management changes including adjustments in your lifestyle or taking medicine prescribed by your doctor, minimally invasive surgery can be the solution your doctor suggests in order to provide rapid, often permanent relief.
• Schedule an appointment with your primary care physician to discuss having doctors Shikora and Tarnoff carry out your surgery.