At the present time we are in the infancy of this technology. It is not very minimally invasive and we have very coarse instruments, so I am looking forward to much finer technologies, which we have to help develop as doctors, together with the technological world. In your role as the primary teacher in Kiel, where Dr. Professor Kurt Semm pioneered pelviscopy, you have taken on much more responsibility and we appreciate the time you spend with all of us in furthering our education. One of the areas that you have spent a great deal of time in is myomectomy, the issue of also organ preserving surgery and teaching these techniques. What two or three pearls could you give us, to ensure that we do good work in our laparoscopic surgery.
Planning is most important for the success of the surgery.
When you first look in, take some moments of consideration. If you go ahead quickly, just putting trocars in without any plan, you re not doing right to the patient. I think that in many surgeries the surgeon puts the trocars in any site and then they think that they can do the surgery. First you have to look around at the anatomy. Then place your trocars so you can successfully perform your surgery.