Abstract
The concept of using ultrasound (US) through a laparoscopic access was first described by Yamakawa et al. in 1958 [1], but only since the end of the 1980s were laparoscopic US probes introduced in the clinical practice. Available data indicate that laparoscopy with laparoscopic US (LUS) provides information similar to that obtained by intraoperative US and can identify lesions that are too small to be visible by preoperative imaging techniques. Furthermore, LUS also allows performance of US-guided biopsy or interstitial therapies such as ethanol injection, cryoablation, or radiofrequency thermal ablation in the same session.
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