Over 450 laparoscopic surgeries have been successfully completed in children ever since it was started on a routine basis in August 1994. Appendectomy, cholecystectomy, orchidopexy etc. are being routinely done only as laparoscopic procedures. This department continues to be one of the few centres in Kerala doing laparoscopic surgeries in children.
This department also does pneumatic reduction of intussusception using the C-Arm Image Intensifier, a non invasive method of managing these babies conservatively. So far 175 cases has been successfully managed.
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