“It is highly significant,” he wrote, “that it will be possible to investigate the front and upper parts of the liver.” He felt that the stomach was difficult to reach by laparoscopic means; he had been unable, he noted, “to make any observations of value.” 4 Despite such limitations, Jacobaeus was enthusiastic about the method.
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Laparoscopy--the early attempts: spotlighting Georg Kelling and Hans Christian Jacobaeus.
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