Leading Article Delivering a modern surgical service from minimal access surgery to scarless surgery: Is this a requirement of our era?

Abstract

It has been suggested that medicine will change more in the next 20 years than it has been in the past 2000 years. This may be true as a result of advances in biotechnology and the recent emergence of nanotechnology (deals with the manipulation and control of nanometerials with atleast one dimension below 100 nm).' These particles have been incorporated successfully into modern surgical practice offering minimally invasive surgical techniques including robotic surgery especially in cardiovascular system