HPB (Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary) surgery is a subspecialty of surgery specific to benign and malignant diseases of the liver, pancreas and biliary tree.

Laparoscopic surgery was developed to reduce the physical trauma associated with traditional surgical procedures. Instead of making a single large incision, the surgeon creates several very small incisions about as wide as a finger and places a laparoscope – a scope with a light and camera – through one of the incisions. This allows the surgeon to view the anatomy. The surgeon performs the operation working with long instruments placed through small tubes in the other incisions.

Because the smaller incisions heal faster, patients who are treated with this surgical technique usually have fewer incisional complications, a shorter hospital stay and a much faster recovery than with open surgery.