R. Craig McClelland, MD, is an attending physician at Piedmont Medical Center in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and a pioneer in gynecological procedures using laparoendoscopic single-site surgery techniques. He has performed more than 125 LESS hysterectomies with minimal complications…has lectured on and taught the procedure to other surgeons nationally and internationally…and recently presented new data on the technique at the annual Global Congress of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists.
When I proposed doing an article on surgical procedures that were less invasive than the traditional abdominal incision approach to…