Minimal access surgery is a specialised surgical procedure to remove Minimal Access Surgeries or growths with minimal scarring and less recovery time. In open surgery, surgeons usually cut along 3/4 to the full length of the Minimal Access Surgery to access it or remove it. With the minimal access technique, the incision is usually about 1/10 the size of the underlying Minimal Access Surgery and the surgeon carefully dissects the Minimal Access Surgery out through this very small incision. A smaller incision forms a much smaller scar. Recovery time is less and in most cases the patient is discharged within a day or two of the minimal access surgery taking place.

In open surgery, which is the traditional way of performing a surgery, surgeons make long cuts through skin, muscle and sometimes bone. Recovery from open surgery takes a longer time, and it is usually painful.

Minimal access procedures are performed through one or more small incisions, and hence there is minimum scarring, and recovery is much faster and almost painless.

Although there are a number of laparoscopic techniques, Minimal Access Surgery surgeons normally insert an endoscope, a long thin tube with a lighted camera at its tip, through a small incision. The camera sends a two-dimensional image of the surgical site to a high-definition monitor, which the surgeon watches throughout the procedure. Specially designed surgical instruments are inserted through the original cut or through other small incisions.

Minimal Access surgical techniques have a number of advantages for patients:
- Patients, in most cases, are discharged from the hospital in just one to two days and they can return their daily activities in a short span of time - Smaller incisions cause less trauma to the body - Surgical scar in case of minimal access surgery is much smaller.

Equipments used for Minimal Access Surgery are different from those in open surgery. Fiber Optic cables, miniature video cameras and special surgical instruments handled via tubes inserted into the body through small incisions are some of them. An external video monitor is used to display the images of the interior of the body. The surgeon has the possibility of making a diagnosis, and acting surgically on it by looking at these images.

Endoscopy means looking inside. It usually refers to looking inside the body for medical reasons using an endoscope. Unlike most other medical imaging devices, endoscopes are inserted directly into the organ.

Fibroids are benign growths in the uterus. Uterine fibroids are an extremely common condition in women. However, fibroid tumors are not only fund in the uterus. There are ovarian fibroids and breast fibroids too, though not as common as uterine fibroids. Symptoms of uterine fibroids include pressure in the abdomen and heavy (in a few cases painful) menstrual periods. In some cases, fibroids can even add to infertility related problems. One fourth of the women with fibroids experience difficulties getting pregnant, though it can be treated in most cases.

Diagnostic laparoscopy is often helps to find out the causes of abdominal pain, infertility and other problems in the reproductive organs. It helps in patients where doctor cannot diagnose the problems by physical examination or by sonography.

Diagnostic Laparoscopy allows doctor to take a close look at patients:
This enables the doctor to make a diagnosis and possibly even correct the problem during the laparoscopy procedure. Diagnostic laparoscopy is used in order to detect complications inside of the reproductive system. In particular, it can be used to diagnose and correct: