OBJECTIVE Laparoscopy has gained clinical acceptance in many subspecialties in the last decade. The conventional open surgery for peritonitis carries significant morbidity and mortality. The present study was done to extend and evaluate benefits of minimally invasive surgery in this subset of patients. METHODS This was a prospective study spanning over a period of four years. All those patien...

INTRODUCTION To demonstrate that laparoscopic intervention should be considered as the initial surgical approach in the management of the non-palpable testis (NPT). METHODS From 2007 to 2011, 100 testicular units underwent same surgeon laparoscopic management for NPT. Diagnostic laparoscopy was performed in all NPT and intra-abdominal testes (IAT) were managed by laparoscopic orchiopexy if lo...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND/ PURPOSE: Perforated peptic ulcer (PPU) is still an existing disease that occurs frequently in the 21st century despite of the wide availability of antiulcer medication and Helicobacter eradication. The current study aimed to evaluate the hypothesis that its outcome might be improved by using the laparoscopy. The outcome of treatment in terms of complications, mortality an...

BACKGROUND The oncologic feasibility of laparoscopic surgery for the cure of colorectal cancer is under debate. The effect of laparoscopic colorectal cancer resection on hepatic tumor spread has not yet been clarified. HYPOTHESIS Laparoscopic surgery affects cell-mediated immune response and hepatic tumor spread dependent on intraperitoneal insufflation. METHODS Thirty WAG/Rij rats were ran...

PURPOSE To assess clinical factors, histopathologic diagnoses, operative time and differences in complication rates between women undergoing laparoscopy or laparotomy to diagnose and treat an adnexal mass and their association with laparoscopy failure. METHODS In this prospective study, 210 women were invited to participate and 133 of them were included. Eighty-eight women underwent laparotom...

background: leiomyomata is the most frequent gynecological neoplasm. one of the major complications of myomectomy is intrauterine adhesion (synechiae). objective: to evaluate and compare the rate and severity of synechiae formation after myomectomy by laparotomy and laparoscopy. materials and methods: in this non-randomized interventional trial, hysteroscopy was performed in all married fertile...

BACKGROUND Because of the high prevalence of obesity, there is a growing demand for bariatric surgery worldwide. The objective of this systematic review was to analyze the difference in relation to cost-effectiveness of access route by laparoscopy versus laparotomy of Roux en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB). METHODS A systematic review was conducted in the electronic databases MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus...

in this paper, we discuss the present situation of laparoscopy in gynecology. there is no doubt that hospital stay, postoperative pain and convalescence are less when it is possible to treat gynecologic disease via laparoscopy. however, for reaching the final conclusion about the other effects of this kind of surgery, e.g., adhesion formation after operation, pregnancy rate, etc., a series of p...

Resumen.OBJETIVO: El envejecimiento de la población actual es un hecho evidente y el tratamiento quirúrgico de estos pacientes es una situación que nos encontramos en nuestro ejercicio habitual. En este sentido, las dudas que nos puede surgir en realizar esta técnica en enfermos con importante comorbilidad parece despejarse, ya que incluso en pacientes con patología respiratoria o cardiológica ...

Acute appendicitis is one of the most common causes of acute abdomen. It may occur from the time of infancy to old age, but the peak age of incidence is in the second and third decades of life. The diagnosis is based on a careful history and physical examination. In patients who have atypical clinical and laboratory findings, US, CT, MRI, a scoring system and laparoscopy can be used. Laparoscop...