OBJECTIVE To outline the experience of laparoscopic surgery at the Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi, and to determine the acceptability and outcome of the various procedures undertaken laparoscopically. DESIGN A retrospective case analysis. SUBJECTS Four hundred and seventy eight cases of laparoscopic surgery were undertaken in Nairobi from May 2000 to May 2002 in the presence of the principal au...

he last decade has witnessed a rapid growth in both the number and complexity of laparoscopic surgical procedures. This trend towards increased practice of minimally invasive surgical procedures is expected to continue, with those in the field predicting that by the end of the next decade approximately 70% of all surgical procedures will be treated laparoscopically. At the heart of this growth ...

Background: Vaginal aplasia is a rare congenital anomaly with different surgical techniques suggested for vaginal reconstruction.McIndoe vaginoplasty is an easy one of these surgical methods with a low morbidity rate, but its long-term results need to be further investigated. Therefore, the female genital anatomy and sexual function was examined afte...

Gastric cancer is the most common malignancy and the incidence is steadily increasing in Korea. The principal treatment modality for gastric cancer is surgical extirpation of tumor along with draining lymph nodes. Gastrectomy with D2 lymph node dissection has been well established as a standard of surgery and improved the survival of gastric cancer patients. Recently, technological advances are...

OBJECTIVES: To investigate various agents for adhesion prevention when used as adjuvants during pelvic surgery. SEARCH STRATEGY: The following databases were searched: the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE, EMBASE and SCOPUS. Intra-abdominal adhesions may occur after most surgical procedures, and are of major clinical, social and economic concern. In most instanc...

Pediatric minimal access surgery (MAS) started in India a decade ago and has a great impact on the way we manage pediatric surgical problems today. The imaginations and creativity of pediatric surgeons across the world have lead to a broad array of surgeries that can now be performed without large incisions. New techniques, procedures, and innovations are always ongoing in this fast-developing ...

introduction: lasers have made tremendous progress in the field of dentistry and have turned out to be crucial in oral surgery as collateral approach for soft tissue surgery. this rapid progress can be attributed to the fact that lasers allow efficient execution of soft tissue procedures with excellent hemostasis and field visibility. when matched to scalpel, electrocautery or high frequency de...

evidence acquisition a systematic literature searching of databases medline, embase, and google scholar was done from 1982 and updated in december 2015. search terms were “cholecystectomy”, “laparoscopic cholecystectomy”, “four port laparoscopic cholecystectomy”, “single-incision laparoscopic surgery”. context laparoscopic approach with its several techniques has become the standard method for ...