conclusions lower bmi, longer duration of marriage, shorter menstrual cycles, dyspareunia, and dysmenorrhea are predictive factors for diagnosis of endometriosis in infertile population. these clinical factors should be considered prior to diagnostic laparoscopy for infertility. results of 441 infertile women, 82 (18.6%) had endometriosis. no statistically significant difference was identified ...

conclusions transabdominal laparoscopic morgagni-larrey hernia repairs with reduced number of ports are safe and feasible. introduction a bilateral anterior parasternal hernia is commonly called a morgagni-larrey hernia. morgagni hernias are rare in adults, accounting for 3% of all treated diaphragmatic hernias. this article reports a giant bilateral morgagni-larrey hernia, repaired with a lapa...

abstract appendicitis after age 40 is unusual, and appendicitis two days after laparoscopic hysterectomy is very rare and has not been reported to date. we describe a 44-year-old woman who had abdominal pain two days after laparoscopic hysterectomy. the pathology report indicated early appendicitis and the pain disappeared after appendectomy. in our opinion, the cause of appendicitis may have b...

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...

INTRODUCTION Hysterectomy and laparoscopy are common surgical procedures used for the treatment of endometriosis. This study compares outcomes for women who received either procedure within the first year post initial surgery. METHODS The study used data from the Truven Health MarketScan claims databases from 2004 to 2013 to identify women aged 18-49 years who received an endometriosis-relate...

OBJECTIVE To study the influence of laparotomy and laparoscopy on local and systemic inflammation in a rat model of peritonitis. DESIGN Bacteremia, peripheral leukocyte subpopulations, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) plasma levels, and ex vivo secretion of peripheral blood mononuclear cells were investigated after laparotomy and laparoscopy in a prospective randomized experimental stu...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopy is a revolutionary technique in modern surgery. However, the comparative efficacy between two-dimensional laparoscopy and three-dimensional laparoscopy remains in uncertainty. Therefore we performed this systematic review and meta-analysis in order to seek for answers. METHODS Databases of PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE and Cochrane Library were carefully screened. Clin...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES To determine perioperative outcome differences in patients undergoing robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery (RALS) versus conventional laparoscopic surgery (CLS) for advanced-stage endometriosis. METHODS This retrospective cohort study at a minimally invasive gynecologic surgery center at 2 academically affiliated, urban, nonprofit hospitals included all patients tre...