Anat Biol Anthropol.  2023 Mar;36(1):17-29. 10.11637/aba.2023.36.1.17.

Production of Educational Surgical Illustration of Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy

• Yang SH
• Kim HJ
• Kang SJ
• Kim MJ
• Hur MS
• Youn KH

• KMID: 2541221
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.11637/aba.2023.36.1.17

Abstract

For laparoscopic partial nephrectomy, the applied approach may vary depending on the location of the kidney tumor or the patient’s condition. For each approach, the structures to be checked during surgery are different. When learning surgery, if only images or videos of actual surgical scenes are used, the field of view is narrow and it is difficult to distinguish between structures, which may lead to poor understanding of the operation. In this learning process, the use of appropriate illustrations can help in a more effective education. However, with the development of the surgical method, the development of the illustration must also be progressed, so that the effect can be expected more. In this study, we tried to create a surgical illustration to help understand laparoscopic partial nephrectomy by deriving limitations through the existing surgical illustration analysis process and establishing a development direction. Through the analysis of illustrations of laparoscopic partial nephrectomy in urological surgery textbooks, the limitations were derived and the direction of illustration production was established. The main improvements were the complement of black-and-white and cross-sectional illustrations, the need for illustrations reflecting recent surgical methods, and the need for development due to the lack of visual data on laparoscopic partial nephrectomy. The created illustration was edited with an atlas to be used as educational material and based on this, a presentation file was produced so that it could be used freely outside the limits of place and time. Also, an educational poster was produced to compare and view the surgical methods of the transperitoneal approach and the retroperitoneal approach. It is expected that the illustration of laparoscopic partial nephrectomy developed through this study and educational materials produced based on it will be provided so that it will be possible to effectively learn and improve the understanding of surgery for medical professionals and medical science students learning surgery.

Keyword

Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy; Surgery illustration; Medical education; Surgical learning visual material