More than 3,000 minimally-invasive surgeries each year are performed at Evergreen Surgical Center. Minimally-invasive surgery is the marriage of modern technology and surgical innovation; it allows many procedures which previously required large incisions to now be accomplished through small button hole-sized incisions.
Your surgeon uses a small camera mounted on a scope (smaller than the diameter of a drinking straw) to visualize the organs to be operated on. Using specially designed instruments inserted through these tiny incisions, the surgeon views the high resolution images on a monitor using our Stryker Endoscopic Video System.
Minimally-invasive surgery is popular because patients experience minimal discomfort and enjoy a faster recovery.