Laparoscopic Access Techniques: Experience in a Developing Country, Sudan

Laparoscopic Access Techniques

Experience at a stricture clinic in a developing country.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the experience of 37 years regarding etiology, complications and evolving practice of the management of stricture urethra patients at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi. METHODS The retrospective descriptive study included 1600 cases of stricture urethra admitted to the Urology Section of the institute from 1972 to 2009. Files of all patients wer...

Experience establishing tuberculosis laboratory capacity in a developing country setting.

OBJECTIVE To describe the experience of strengthening laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in a resource-limited country with high TB-HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) prevalence. METHODS In the Kingdom of Lesotho, which is confronted with high levels of TB, MDR-TB and HIV prevalence, between 2006 and 2008 a coalition of the Foundation for Innovative ...

Morbid obesity in a developing country: the Chilean experience.

a Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. b Department of Public Health, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. c Department of Digestive Surgery, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Correspondence to Claudia Bambs (e-mail: [email protected]). doi:10.2471/BLT.07.048785 (Submitted: 18 October 200...

Single incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy vs conventional cholecystectomy in developing country.

INTRODUCTION Use of laparoscopic surgery has demanded principles of less trauma of access hence less scar and so probably less complications. Hence conventional laparoscopic surgeries were tried with natural orifice transluminal surgery (NOTES) and then single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS). With refinement in instruments and surgeons skills SILS have bridged up between conventional and N...