OBJECTIVE To review the current role and outcome of laparoscopic adrenalectomy (LA) in the management of adrenal tumours. METHODS A Medline search using the keywords (adrenalectomy, laparoscopy, adrenal masses/tumours) was done for reports published between 1990 and 2011. Key articles were used to find more relevant references on the evaluation and laparoscopic management of adrenal masses. ...

This study aimed to provide the initial laparoscopy results as well as the results after a 16-month follow-up of a 78-year-old patient with tuberculous peritonitis. Imaging and laboratory examinations were performed for preliminary diagnosis, and laparoscopy and Gram staining were used for definitive diagnosis. The initial laparoscopy results showed the presence of typical yellow-white nodules ...

Pneumoperitoneum during laparoscopy has been known to result in a rise in intracranial pressure (ICP) in experimental studies. There are no reports of the effect of pneumoperitoneum during diagnostic laparoscopy in patients suffering closed head injuries. We present the case of a 39 year old male with a closed head injury. Diagnostic laparoscopy was performed while intracranial pressure was mon...

BACKGROUND The utility and problems including the socioeconomic aspect of laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer have not been fully evaluated. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We compared open distal gastrectomy and laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy for the clinical benefit, quality of life, and problems of operation cost by the reference documents in which the difference betwe...

The idea of using laparoscopy for diagnosing abdominal masses is as old as the use of laparoscopy itself. The first report of laparoscopy in America was published in 1911 by Bertram M. Bernheim of Johns Hopkins University. Using a rigid cytoscope and light reflected from a head lamp, the abdomen was explored for metastatic disease. The first use of laparoscopy for pancreatic cancer was presente...