La cirugía laparoscópica en Europa: ¿hacia dónde vamos?

The most important factors that have facilitated the development of laparoscopic surgery (LS) are technological innovations and the vision of a small number of surgeons who took advantage of these advances. There are few surgical innovations that have stimulated such controversies and concerns and have raised so many medico-legal issues as LS. Although much progress has been made in LS, some important controversies remain unresolved, which are reviewed in the present article: