OBJECTIVE To evaluate the operative time, hospital stay, conversion rate, morbidity and mortality in elderly patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy for gallbladder disease. METHODS We conducted a descriptive, retrospective study with the chats of 960 patients, aged 60 and 97 years in the period from January 1993 to August 2009. RESULTS Operative time ranged from nine to 180 minute...

INTRODUCTION Desmoid tumors (also called aggressive fibromatosis) are histologically benign, but have a strong tendency to recur locally after resection. They are rare neoplastic tumors that may occur sporadically or in association with familial adenomatous polyposis caused by a germline mutation in the adenomatous polyposis coli gene. The etiology of desmoid tumors is unknown, but their associ...

Laparoscopic surgery offers patients distinct benefits but is not without its disadvantages to surgeons in terms of maneuverability and visualization. Robotic telemanipulation systems were introduced with the objective of providing a solution to the problems in this field of surgery. The feasibility of robot-assisted surgery was assessed by performing 35 laparoscopic cholecystectomies with the ...

PURPOSE To perform a prospective analysis of the clinical outcomes of prophylactic antibiotic treatment before the standard surgical modality of living donor nephrectomy (LDN) without postoperative antibiotic treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS From November 2005 to June 2010, a total of 470 patients underwent LDN at our medical institution, and 280 of these patients were injected with 1 g cepha...

PURPOSE This study aimed to comparatively evaluate the cost-effectiveness of four different types of radical nephrectomy (RN) techniques: open, laparoscopic, robot-assisted laparoscopic, and video-assisted minilaparotomy surgery (VAMS). MATERIALS AND METHODS Among patients who were diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma and underwent RN, 20 patients were selected who received open, laparoscopic,...

BACKGROUND We aimed to evaluate the microscopic extent of endometriosis in surgical en-bloc specimens of vaginal skin, rectovaginal septum, cul-de-sac, and part of the rectosigmoid bowel. METHODS From December, 1997 to October, 2001, 50 patients with the trias of intestinal pain, palpable disease in the rectovaginal septum, and laparoscopic diagnosis of endometriosis of the cul-de-sac and/or ...