Resumen

ZAMORA SANTANA, Orlando et al. Vídeolaparoscopia para estadificación de tumores malignos: Más que moda, conveniencia. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2004, vol.43, n.1. ISSN 0034-7493.

The use of laparoscopy in the field of oncology is nothing new; however, its possibilities have been considerably widened with the use of the technological possiblities and of the instrumental, as well as with the abilities of surgeons in the practice of minimal access surgical procedures. As a result, a new "active" and "instrumented" laparoscopy with greater possibilites than the previous one and that overcomes many of the limitations that the modern imaging tools have in the staging of tumors has appeared. Some of these limitations justifying the introduction of video-assisted laparoscopy into the protocols of study of some malignant tumors were reviewed. Its benefits and some technical aspects were also stressed. The importance of the video-assisted laparoscopic staging as regards the saving of unnecessary laparotomies and the potential application of palliative laparoscopic techniques was underlined

Palabras clave : NEOPLASM STAGING; LAPAROSCOPY.