Then your doctor uses a thin tube equipped with a camera lens and light (laparoscope) to view the area.

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They did the operation manually, maneuvering chopstick-like instruments through small incisions while watching via a laparoscope, a tube with a tiny camera at the end.

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The laparoscope is a flexible controllable tube, with a camera and a bright light at the end, which allows the surgeon to see inside a patient's body.

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The patient was a woman with a large tumor in the adrenal gland atop her right kidney, and I had decided to remove it using a laparoscope.

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The gynecologist made several incisions and inserted the laparoscope.

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You slide a small camera a laparoscope into the abdomen through a quarter-inch incision near the belly button, insert a long grasper through an incision beneath the waistline, and push a device for stapling and cutting through an incision in the left lower abdomen.

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