Single port–assisted laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: a new approach to the growth of reproducibility of the single portretain-->

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) has been one of the most widely used bariatric surgery techniques in the world in recent years [ 1 Ponce J. DeMaria E.J. Nguyen N.T. Hutter M. Sudan R. Morton J.M. American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery estimation of bariatric surgery procedures in 2015 and surgeon workforce in the United States. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2016; 12: 1637-1639 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (131) Google Scholar , 2 Angrisani L. Santonicola A. Iovino P. et al. Bariatric surgery and endoluminal procedures: IFSO worldwide survey 2014. Obes Surg. 2017; 27: 2279-2289 Crossref PubMed Scopus (448) Google Scholar ]. Single-port laparoscopic surgery in bariatric surgery, as well as in other processes, had a promising beginning as an evolution of conventional laparoscopic surgery. However, currently the number of surgeons who perform it is minimal, which has failed to generalize its use as a laparoscopic approach procedure.