STUDY OBJECTIVE To compare robotic-assisted laparoscopy with conventional laparoscopy for treatment of advanced stage endometriosis insofar as operative time, estimated blood loss, complication rate, and length of hospital stay. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study (Canadian Task Force classification II2). All procedures were performed by one surgeon between January 2004 and July 2012. Dat...

BACKGROUND Staging laparoscopy can detect radiographically occult peritoneal metastases and prevent futile laparotomy in patients with gastric adenocarcinoma. We sought to assess the use of staging laparoscopy for gastric adenocarcinoma in a cohort of older patients and to compare outcomes after laparoscopy alone with nontherapeutic laparotomy. STUDY DESIGN Using Surveillance, Epidemiology an...

A 74-year-old woman with BMI of 40.4 visited our hospital a complaint vaginal bleeding. Histological examination the endometrium revealed grade 1 endometrial carcinoma. Pelvic contrast-enhanced MRI and CT showed no obvious myometrial invasion three cm umbilical hernia, respectively. The preoperative diagnosis was cancer, stage IA equivalent. four longitudinal incision made in right lower abdome...

Diagnostic laparoscopy is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that allows the visual examination and documentation of intra abdominal organs in order o detect any pathology. Diagnostic laparoscopy was first introduced in 1901, when kelling, performed a peritoneoscopy in a dog and was called “Celioscopy”. A Swedish internist named Jacobaeuse its credited with performing the first Diagnostic ...

Zusammenfassung: Laparoscopie oder Perito­neoskopie ist eine weitverbreitete Methode zur Diagnostik vieler abdominellen Erkrankungen. N ach einer kurzer BeS'Chreibung deer Technik, werden <lie Indikationene und Kontra-indika­tionen dieser Untersuchungsmethode an Hand der Literature besprochen. (22 Ref.).  Abstract: Laparoscopy or peritoneoscopy is a relatively common procedure to study intra­a...

BACKGROUND Surgical resection is the only curative treatment for pancreatic and periampullary cancer, but many patients undergo unnecessary laparotomy because tumours can be understaged by computerised tomography (CT). A recent Cochrane review found diagnostic laparoscopy can decrease unnecessary laparotomy. We compared the cost-effectiveness of diagnostic laparoscopy prior to laparotomy versus...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate surgical outcomes for gynecologic surgery performed by single-incision laparoscopy compared with conventional multi-incision laparoscopy. DATA SOURCES We searched MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and clinicaltrials.gov through August 2012. We also screened reference lists of retrieved articles and manually searched abstracts from conferenc...

INTRODUCTION Transomental herniation is a rare but recognised clinical condition, which usually presents as an emergency with bowel obstruction. It accounts for 1-4% of intra-abdominal herniations. We reviewed 3 patients found to have a transomental defect during elective diagnostic laparoscopy performed for chronic abdominal pain. To our knowledge, there is no case series reported in the liter...

treatment (HT), while in the next sentence the number of cases receiving HT reached 31 cases. It seems reasonable that the patients were advised to withdraw from using any hormonal substance, and that is the third prerequisite for randomization. In addition, the use of estrogenic compounds should cease before any elective surgery in order to avoid thromboembolic accidents.More usefully, they co...