with Hypaque was performed before the expected date of ovulation, and laparoscopy before menstruation.' All but one of the laparoscopies were performed under local anaesthesia2 with about 30 ml aqueous methylene blue injected under low pressure into the uterine cavity. On laparoscopy the dye could be seen traversing patent tubes and spilling into the pouch of Douglas. Bilateral tubal patency wa...

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STUDY OBJECTIVE To evaluate the role of laparoscopy in the diagnosis and therapy of infertility. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Academically affiliated reproductive endocrinology practice. PATIENTS One hundred seventy patients. INTERVENTION Diagnostic/therapeutic laparoscopy. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS One hundred seventy infertile patients underwent diagnostic laparoscopy bet...

The many benefits of laparoscopy, including smaller incision, reduced length of hospital stay and more rapid return to normal function, have seen its popularity grow in recent years. With concurrent improvements in non-surgical cancer management the importance of accurate staging is becoming increasingly important. There are two main applications of laparoscopic surgery in managing hepato-pancr...

OBJECTIVE To analyze clinical results and financial costs of salpingo-oophorectomy performed by laparoscopy versus laparotomy. STUDY DESIGN Comparison of laparoscopic salpingo-oophorectomy with procedures performed by laparotomy. SETTING St. Vincent's Hospital and Fallon Clinic in Worcester, Massachusetts. PATIENTS Twenty women in both groups. INTERVENTIONS Salpingo-oophorectomies perfo...

surgical cases compared to robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery. Sixty-nine percent (n = 33) of fellows indicated that robot-assisted laparoscopy allows them to perform more challenging surgical cases compared to conventional laparoscopy. Fifty six percent (n = 27) of fellows agreed that the cost associated with robotassisted laparoscopy is the greatest disadvantage of using robot-assisted lapar...

BACKGROUND/AIMS We examined the effects according to the extent of surgical wound mimicking laparoscopy or laparotomy on ovarian cancer growth in an orthotopic mouse model. MATERIALS AND METHODS To mimic surgery effects, we performed laparoscopy or laparotomy on athymic nude mice under isoflurane inhalation at four days after tumor cell injection. For the laparoscopy model, we performed pneum...