INTRODUCTION Laparoscopy is a long-established diagnostic and therapeutic method for treating women suffering from infertility. The application of this method of treatment can help achieve pregnancy only if there is correct classification of patients and evaluation of their partner's reproductive capacity. The main predictors of achieving pregnancy in a couple treated for infertility are the wo...

Introduction The introduction of laparoscopic surgery and recent in laparoscopy have been increasingly recognized as a procedure that offers precise visual assessment intra-abdominal condition for diagnosis prompt intervention. Laparoscopy has significant diagnostic therapeutic role patient with abdominal pain. In case uncertainty, may help to avoid unnecessary laparotomies, provide accurate he...

Appendicectomy is the commonest non obstetric indication for surgical intervention during gestation. Laparoscopic approach is proven to be superior to open surgery in gravid patients with suspected appendicitis. It excludes other pathologies that can mimic appendicitis and entail pregnancy risks and remove the inflamed appendix at the same setting which is therapeutic. We report a case of acute...

Hemangiomas of the small bowel are rare tumors that often present with gastrointestinal bleeding. Diagnosis can be difficult and exploratory laparotomy has often proved to be the only method with which to determine the presence and location of these tumors. We report two cases of small bowel hemangioma in children aged 10 and 7 years, in which the diagnosis was made by laparoscopy. Laparoscopy ...

This randomized Phase II trial will compare the efficacy and safety of laparoscopy-assisted D2 distal gastrectomy and open distal D2 gastrectomy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for patients with macroscopically resectable serosa-positive gastric cancer. When R0/R1 surgery is achieved, patients receive S-1 chemotherapy for 1-year post-operatively. The primary endpoint is the 3-year disease-free s...

INTRODUCTION Today, laparoscopy tends to become a useful alternative to open procedure for the surgical treatment of spleen disorders, offering at the same time a conservative approach for the management of selected spleen lesions such as posttraumatic cysts. CASE PRESENTATION This article describes two cases of posttraumatic splenic cysts, one of which was treated with laparoscopic total spl...

incarceration at the site of laparoscope insertion that resulted in intestinal obstruction, and claimed that this was the first report of this complication of laparoscopy. Both patients eventually needed small bowel resection, 14 and 21 days after laparoscopy. These two patients, and the one described above, were initially well after laparoscopy and then started to vomit on the third and the si...

OBJECTIVE To compare the laparotomy and laparoscopy techniques for correction of ventral hernia when related to perioperative complications, length of hospitalization, surgical time, and recurrence of hernia. METHODS This was a systematic review of randomized controlled trials, which included studies retrieved from four databases (MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane and LILACS), using a combination of ...