Advantages
Laparoscopy has the following advantages over traditional open procedures:
- generally cheaper to carry out if expense of convalescence time is taken into account
- shorter hospital stay
- less postoperative pain
- more cosmetic scars favoured by patient
- the patient is off work for a shorter period of time, typically 1-2 weeks
- less wound-related complications, for example:
- infection
- incisional hernia
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