ABSTRACT
Laparoscopic ultrasonography has been integrated into advanced laparoscopic urological surgery in recent years. This technology was initially applied in gastrointestinal surgery during the early 1990s since dedicated high-resolution B-mode (gray-scale two-dimensional image) laparoscopic ultrasound probes became available (1). Laparoscopic ultrasonography can provide the laparoscopic surgeon with information that may be unobtainable by laparoscopy alone.
