Video Endoscopic Inguinal Lymphadenectomy: Learning Curve and Midterm Follow-Up Results of a New Procedure

Video endoscopic-assisted inguino-femoral lymphadenectomy (VEIL) in squamous cell invasive vulvar carcinoma: our initial experience

“…Our operating time was significantly longer compared to classical surgery, but we believe that standardized surgical procedures, improvements of endoscopic instrumentation, and a dedicated trained surgical team could considerably improve this aspect. Reports indicate that operating time significantly decrease with the learning curve [32]. Our feeling is that the learning curve is not steep for a trained oncologist surgeon with experience in laparoscopic techniques as the main principles of endoscopic surgery apply.…”

Video Endoscopic Inguinal Lymphadenectomy: Refi ning surgical technique after ten years experience

“…Penile carcinoma is a rare malignant disease with a signifi cantly higher incidence in some areas of underdeveloped countries [1]. Inguinal nodal involvement is found in 20% to 40% of cases at diagnosis and nodal metastasis is an important predictive factor for survival [2,3].…”

“…We aim to describe the changes in the VEIL technique (called from now on as refi ning VEIL) compared to the initial description [1].…”

Video Endoscopic Inguinal Lymphadenectomy (VEIL): Minimally Invasive Radical Inguinal Lymphadenectomy Technique

“…Penile Cancer is rare in developed countries but not uncommon in developing countries like India, Brazil and some of the African Countries [1]. In India, it is more commonly seen in costal Tamilnadu, probably related to poor Hygiene.…”

“…Rare consequence of margin necrosis and infection is catastrophic haemorrhage from femoral vessels. Video endoscopic inguinal lymphadenectomy (VEIL) is the procedure described to reduce the morbidity associated with open counterpart and is a minimally invasive approach, which reduces the pain ensures early recovery and gives cosmetically better outcome [1,3,6,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. Hence we will be describing the technique of VEIL and discussing the advantages and oncological outcome in our series.…”