SUCCESSFUL CONSERVATIVE MANAGEMENT OF A RETROPERITONEAL ABSCESS AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY: CASE REPORT

Major vascular injury during laparoscopic surgery is an uncommon but serious complication.

About 50% of patients who have a permanent stoma experience some degree of parastomal hernia formation. To prevent this complication, the extraperitoneal route is considered to be more effective than the transperitoneal route in the case of open colorectal surgery. This technique also has superiority in avoiding postoperative intestinal obstruction. Although laparoscopic surgery for rectal canc...

HYPOTHESIS An increase in national utilization of bariatric surgery correlates with the dissemination of laparoscopic bariatric surgery. DESIGN Evaluation of Nationwide Inpatient Sample data from 1998 through 2002. SETTING National database. PATIENTS A total of 188,599 patients underwent bariatric surgery for the treatment of morbid obesity. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Annual total number of ...

Laparoscopic techniques have been extensively used for the surgical management of colorectal cancer during the last two decades. Accumulating data have demonstrated that laparoscopic colectomy is associated with better short-term outcomes and equivalent oncologic outcomes when compared with open surgery. However, some controversies regarding the oncologic quality of mini-invasive surgery for re...

OBJECTIVE To map out the path way from open pancreatico duodenectomy to complete laparoscopic resection detailing the situations which necessitated conversion to the open surgery at different stages of the procedure. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Laparoscopic assisted pancreatico-duodenectomy is an achievable alternative to open surgery which necessitates a steep, stepwise learning curve. The usefuln...

BACKGROUND Increase in intracranial pressure (ICP) is one of the physiologic changes during laparoscopic surgery, which is known to be associated with positional changes. Changes of ICP can be measured directly by invasive method, but ultrasonographic measurement of optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) is known to be a rapidly applicable technique for evaluating ICP. The aim of this study is to i...

BACKGROUND Patients with gastroesophageal reflux and Barrett esophagus may represent a group of patients with poorer postoperative outcomes. It has been suggested that such patients should undergo open rather than laparoscopic antireflux surgery. HYPOTHESIS The laparoscopic approach to antireflux surgery is appropriate treatment for patients with Barrett esophagus who have symptomatic gastroe...

BACKGROUND This study sought to synthesize survival outcomes from trials of laparoscopic and open colorectal cancer surgery, and to determine whether expert acceptance of this technology in the literature has parallel cumulative survival evidence. STUDY DESIGN A systematic review of randomized trials was conducted. The primary outcome was survival, and meta-analysis of time-to-event data was ...