BACKGROUND The duodenal Switch (DS) is a variant of the biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) for the surgical treatment of morbid obesity. MATERIALS AND METHODS The laparoscopic DS (LapDS) operation is described, and the early surgical outcomes of 16 patients are reported. RESULTS Postoperative stay was 5 to 8 days. Local wound infection at a trocar site was the most common local complication. ...

background the number of laparoscopic procedures done each year continues to rise substantially. clinically significant hemorrhage from secondary port sites at laparoscopy is an uncommon but serious complication and can become unrecognized intraoperatively. abdominal wall hemorrhage and bruising may complicate laparoscopic operative procedures. methods we propose an easy technical gesture to st...

Laparoscopic surgery is a minimally invasive surgery that accelerates postoperative recovery, but it can only be performed by surgeons with advanced surgical skills. One of the main difficulties in laparoscopic surgery is restriction of free motion of the forceps because of limited degrees of freedom by the trocar. Recently, many master–slave manipulators with a remote center-of-motion mechanis...

PURPOSE To compare between hand closure and Carter-Thomason technique with respect to following parame­ters, time taken for port site closure, wound infection, wound dehiscence, seroma formation, port site herniation, and ascitic fluid leak. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, 200 cases who underwent laparoscopic donor nephrectomy were selected and divided into two groups based on closure te...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic stoma formation has gained wide acceptance as an alternative to open abdominal surgery. Although laparoscopic stoma formation has a low morbidity, complications have been reported. Contributing factors to these complications are twisting of the bowel, maturing the wrong limb, or both of these. In this report, we describe a simple technique that can reduce these complicat...

Dear Editor: The 23-gauge (G) transconjunctival sutureless vitrectomy (TSV) technique has advantages of decreased surgical trauma, decreased astigmatism, faster wound healing, and improved postoperative comfort compared with other vitrectomy techniques. Although the efficacy of 23-G is comparable with conventional 20-G vitrectomy, some surgeons still use 20-G vitrectomy in complicated cases, su...

BACKGROUND Among endoscopic hernioplasties, totally extraperitoneal (TEP) and transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) approach are widely accepted alternatives to open surgery, both providing less postoperative pain, hospital length of stay and early return to work. Classical TEP technique requires three skin incisions for placement of three trocars in the midline or in triangulation. AIM To desc...

PURPOSE Single-site laparoscopic surgery has become increasingly common. We herein report an easy and low-cost thoracic trocar technique (TTT) for these types of procedures and recommend the simpler name "transumbilical scarless surgery" (TUSS) to minimize confusion in nomenclature. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed patients who underwent TUSS by TTT using a thoracic trocar and surgical glo...