Afuwape O O, Akute O O
Department of surgery, University College Hospital Ibadan Nigeria.
Niger Postgrad Med J. 2011 Sep;18(3):197-9.
Laparoscopic surgery has become the preferred standard in developed countries. New procedures in laparoscopic surgery are continually being developed. Despite these innovations Nigeria and many other African are yet to fully embrace this surgical approach. Few therapeutic laparoscopic surgery procedures are performed annually in Nigerian teaching hospitals. Appropriate personnel and the initial high cost of acquiring state of the art equipments are some of the challenges in laparoscopic surgery in developing countries. A few centres have developed ways of solving these challenges. We discuss the envisaged problems with laparoscopic surgery in Nigeria and some other African countries and suggest solutions to these problems.
腹腔镜手术在发达国家已成为首选的标准术式。腹腔镜手术的新术式不断涌现。尽管有这些创新，但尼日利亚和许多其他非洲国家尚未全面采用这种手术方式。尼日利亚的教学医院每年开展的治疗性腹腔镜手术很少。合适的人员以及购置先进设备的初始高昂成本是发展中国家腹腔镜手术面临的一些挑战。一些中心已找到解决这些挑战的方法。我们讨论了尼日利亚和其他一些非洲国家在腹腔镜手术方面可能遇到的问题，并提出了解决这些问题的建议。
