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Minimally Invasive Surgery  is a new kind of surgery which gets more and more common nowadays. Another  expression is called 'endoscopic surgery'.With this method a surgical operation is performed by the help of

• a small endoscopic camera
• several long, thin, rigid instruments

Through natural body openings or small artificial incisions.In comparison to the usual, open surgery, there exist several advantages for the patient:

• less pain, less strain of the organism
• faster recovery
• small injuries (aesthetic reasons)
• economic gain (shorter illness time)

On the other hand there exist some important disadvantages for the surgeon too

• restricted vision
• difficult handling of the instruments
• very restricted mobility
• difficult hand-eye coordination
• no tactile perception 

 Basically a new form of heart surgery that has grown in popularity is robot assisted heart surgery.This is
to this is the size of the incision made in the patient. Instead of an incision being at least big enough for the surgeon to put his hands inside it does not have to be bigger than 3 small holes for the robot's much smaller hands to get through.Also a major advantage to the robot is the recovery time of the patient, instead of months of recovery time some patients have recovered and resumed playing athletics in a matter of weeks.