[Progress of surgical treatment in the last 10 years. Comparative study of surgical interventions performed between 1993-1995 versus between 2003-2005].

In the last decade of the past century, as laparoscopy was introduced in our clinic in 1993, minimal access therapy (MAT--endoscopy, angiography, interventional imagery) had a positive and constant evolution. Our paper retrospectively evaluates the interventions performed between 2003-2005 (group A) compared to those performed between 1993-1995 (group B). We observed a 17.08% (7056 vs 6026 interventions/year) raise in the total number of interventions in group A, with a significant 66% decrease (195 vs. 588 interventions/year) of interventions for gastro-duodenal ulcer and a 18% decrease (1211 vs 1490 interventions/year) of appendectomies, but a 63% increase (1560 vs. 955 interventions/year) of cholecystectomies, 53% increase (1186 vs. 773 interventions/year) of interventions for parietal defects and a 62% (626 vs. 325 interventions/year) increase of oncological interventions. The most frequent interventions were, in the order of frequencies: cholecystectomies (79.8% laparoscopically), appendectomies, interventions for hernia and eventrations, oncological operations and trauma surgery. The incidence of laparoscopic interventions was greater in group A, counting for 19% of the total number of interventions. In group A were performed 2334 endoscopies, 149 diagnostic and therapeutic angiographies. Postoperative mortality dropped with 29.64% and hospital stay dropped to 4.7 days. We believe that the incidence of MAT should rise, by performing more laparoscopic interventions and this change should lead to a revision of the surgical residents training program.