background port site complications following elective surgery are rare and port site infections remain the most common short long term complications. objectives the study was conducted to analyze port site complications occurring in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy for symptomatic cholelithiasis. patients and methods ninety patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy were r...

Objective: Laparoscopic surgery is the standard care for early-stage endometrial cancer. We evaluated laparoscopic cancer in our hospital.

Introduction: The introduction of laparoscopic surgery into clinical practice has dramatically changed the field of surgery. Patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery have less post-operative pain, less impairment of vital functions, a shorter hospital stay, earlier resumption of oral intake and normal activities and, a better cosmesis. The last two decades (1992-2011) have seen a tremendous adv...

INTRODUCTION Laparoscopic splenectomy has become the procedure of choice for those patients who need to have a splenectomy. The skills required to perform a laparoscopic splenectomy are not easy to learn and therefore may limit the availability of this procedure to patients. METHODS We present a hand-assisted technique that allows the performance of a laparoscopic splenectomy safely and rapid...

the laparoscopic findings of 32 patients with chronic pelvic pain were compared with findings of 62 pain free women who were candidates for laparoscopic tubal sterilization. the most common findings, normal pelvis, was found in 50% of patients and 80.6% of controls that was statistically significant (p<0.01). there was no significant difference with pelvic adhesions, polycystic ovaries, pelvic ...

cancer of the stomach carries poor prognosis. surgery is the best treatment for gastric cancer. prediction of survival depends on the stage at the time of presentation. fluoroscopy, sonography, and computerized tomography are used for advanced gastric cancers staging, but they are not accurate enough to grade advanced gastric cancers. laparoscopic findings of lesions under direct vision, are ma...

background: more than 70 million couples suffer from infertility worldwide. the aim of this study was to evaluate the fertility outcomes after laparoscopic fimbrioplasty and neosalpingostomy in female infertility. methods: laparoscopic distal tuboplasty was carried out for 402 cases at the gynecological endoscopic surgery and human reproductive teaching hospital in yaoundé-cameroon in central a...

background: inflammatory response following surgical trauma has long been a matter of study. results, however, have been varied. we sought to assess changes in the levels of proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in patients undergoing laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy and their impact on the clinical outcome of patients concerning the postoperative pain score. methods: the study i...

laparoscopy has made a revolution in surgical procedures and treatment of various diseases but its complications are still under investigation. intra-abdominal visceral and vessel injuries, trocar site hernia, and leaving foreign bodies into the peritoneal cavity are among some laparoscopic surgery complications. this is a rare report of penrose drain migration following incomplete laparoscopic...

results sixty patients completed the study. patients in the hydrocortisone group had no statistically significant abdominal and shoulder pain scores compared to the bupivacaine group. the patients were similar regarding postoperative analgesic requirements, return of bowel function, nausea and vomiting. no adverse effect was detected in either group. background postoperative pain is a major com...