Single‐port laparoscopic surgery: initial experience in children for varicocelectomy

To present our initial experience in children undergoing single‐port laparoscopic varicocelectomy (SPLV) using a new approach in which the entire procedure is performed through a multichannel single laparoscopic port inserted in the umbilicus rather than the traditional LV performed through three abdominal ports.

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