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Laparoscopic cholecystectomy provides a new approach for gallbladder removal with which most general surgeons are not familiar. Requisites for the safe performance of this procedure are good hand-eye coordination, depth perception, and team cooperation. To aid with problems in depth perception and in the opposing movements caused by the lever principle, a training model was designed in which surgeons may execute a variety of exercises to enhance their motor skills and learn to work cooperatively with two other surgeons before operating on an experimental animal.
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Sackier, J.M., Berci, G. & Paz-Partlow, M. A new training device for laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Surg Endosc 5, 158–159 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02653227
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02653227