Background: Abdominal pain is a common presentation that requires almost immediate management. It is sometimes crucial to diagnose at the earliest and make a decision as to operate. Therefore it is necessary for the physician to be familiar both with the presentations of common causes of abdominal pain and the validity of diagnostic tests. Diagnosis of acute abdomen before laparotomy is essenti...

The incidence of Müllerian duct anomalies in women is rare, associating with urinary tract anomalies such as horseshoe or pelvic kidney, renal agenesis, duplication of the collecting system, or ectopic uterus. Septate uterus is one type of congenital uterine anomalies, in which there is a septum from the fundus to the cervix. Currently, it is believed that hysteroscopic metroplasty is a leading...

OBJECTIVE The therapeutic approach to abdominal penetrating stab injuries has changed over the years from routine laparotomy to non-operative treatment. In case of organ or omental evisceration, although the laparotomy need is greater, non-operative treatment may be applied in selected cases. The aim of our study was to assess the follow-up and treatment outcomes of patients with organ or oment...

omental torsion is caused by the rotation of the greater omentum on its axis which may lead to tissue infarction and necrosis. it is a rare cause of acute abdomen. signs, symptoms and paraclinical data are not specific. the patients usually undergo laparotomy for acute abdomen of poorly defined origin. high index of suspicious is required for the diagnosis of this entity. the diagnosis is usual...

BACKGROUND Surgical resection is the only curative treatment for pancreatic and periampullary cancer, but many patients undergo unnecessary laparotomy because tumours can be understaged by computerised tomography (CT). A recent Cochrane review found diagnostic laparoscopy can decrease unnecessary laparotomy. We compared the cost-effectiveness of diagnostic laparoscopy prior to laparotomy versus...

The typical macroscopic features of Crohn's disease have been well described and are widely regarded as sufficient to diagnose the disease at laparotomy. We report six patients undergoing laparotomy for symptomatic Crohn's disease, shown radiologically, who were found to have macroscopically normal small bowel despite careful examination of the bowel by an experienced surgeon. In four cases res...

Around 35,000 patients undergo emergency laparotomy surgery in the UK each year with an in-hospital 30-day mortality estimated as between 11 and 15 %. The recent publication of the First Patient Report of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) has provided a detailed description of individual hospital performance against national standards of care in emergency laparotomy in England and ...

Background & Aims: It is believed that uterine septum, because of its effect on infertility and recurrent abortion is very important and pregnancy outcome is obviously improved by hysteroscopic metroplasty (HM). In this study, the probable relationship of uterine septum dimensions (length and width) with infertility and recurrent abortion has been investigated. Methods: This clinical trial was ...

Acute renal failure (ARF) is a condition that may occurs in susceptible postoperative patients. The incidence of ARF reaches 30?60% and it more after major surgery (e.g., laparotomy, heart surgery). It often caused by hypovolemia, hypoperfusion, systemic inflammation. Laparotomy complex operation can lead to complications including ARF, acute pulmonary edema, sepsis, increased morbidity mortali...

A 31-year-old nulligravid woman with a 3 year history of infertility visited our hospital. After consultation and a transvaginal ultrasound and MR imaging, her uterine anomaly was identified as complete septate uterus: class V (a) by the American Fertility Society (AFS). She had a doubled uterine cervix and a vaginal septum. Hysteroscopic metroplasty was performed with the aid of a laparoscopy....