The main advantages of the Endoscopic Surgery or minimum invasion surgery are the following ones:

1. Minimum pain after the surgery due to the size of the wounds.
2. Very important decrease in the risk of infection of the wounds.
3. Smaller secondary index of hernias of abdominal wall to surgery (post incision hernia).
4. Smaller limitation of breathing by the minimum abdominal pain, diminishing the frequent lung complications (importantly in open surgery).
5. Early reincorporation of labor daily activity, diminishing of their days in a hospital. Cheaper than a traditional surgery (smaller cost benefits)
6. The esthetic result visually minimizes scars; in almost all the cases they are imperceptible throughout time.
7. The cost of the surgery is very similar to the open surgery.
8. Little waste of medications because the great majority of laparoscopic procedures don’t require any medication.

The procedures more frequently carried out by laparoscopy:

1. Obesity: surgery of reduction of weight for the Morbid Obesity (Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy)
2. Remove adjustable gastric band: with laparoscopic, for complications or secondary intolerance to surgery of obesity.
3. Stomach: laparoscopic fundoplication for reflux and hiatal hernia of any size.
4. Laparoscopic resections: gastric for small tumors of stomach.
5. Vesicle: Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy with and without exploration of the biliary ducts.
6. Appendix: Laparoscopic Appendectomy (complicated urgency for appendicitis in children and adults).
7. Abdominal and inguinal hernia: Laparoscopic Hernioplasty with prosthesis or mesh.
8. Gastric laparoscopic derivation: for stenosis or secondary gastric closing by caustic or chemistry burn or for benign tumors.
9. Stomach and duodenum: closing of gastric or duodenal perforated ulcer by laparoscopy.
10. Esophagus: laparoscopic myotomy for the esophagic achalasia.
11. Spleen: laparoscopic splenectomy for illnesses of the blood and chronic anemia.
12. Renal inadequacy: placement of catheter of dialysis peritoneal laparoscopic and Nephrectomy laparoscopy.
13. Liver: Hepatic biopsy and abscess drainage or collections hepatic laparoscopy.
14. Sharp or chronic abdominal pain: laparoscopy and therapeutic diagnostics (in cases of abdominal diagnostic doubt in women, children and older adults).
15. Pancreas: Surgery derivative laparoscopic for false secondary cysts to pancreatitis or trauma.
16. Complications: manage patient with secondary abdominal complications to open surgery or surgery of obesity not well managed by laparoscopy.
17. Adrenal glands: Adrenalectomy laparoscopy for benign tumors of the adrenal glands.
18. Colon: Handling of water-pipes, diverticulum and colon tumors for laparoscopy.