Injury to intra-abdominal structures is a common complication of laparoscopic surgery that is usually caused by blind insertion of trocars. Some surgeons insert the first trocar using an 'open ...

A basic tenet of laparoscopic surgery involves triangulation of instruments so as to produce adequate intracorporeal working space for anatomic dissection and manipulation of tissues (Figure 1B).

In a lawsuit, Yaffa says the problems began with a piece of equipment called a trocar, which is described as a pen-shaped instrument used in minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery. In Rodriguez ...