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Surgery & Medical Devices · Recorded milestone

Keyhole gallbladder surgery

Recorded year1985

Erich Muhe removes a gallbladder through a laparoscope, starting the move from large cuts to keyhole surgery.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.