OBJECTIVE We investigated the short-term outcomes and pregnancy rate after a laparoscopic approach to fertility preservation in patients with borderline ovarian tumors (BOTs). METHODS Clinic-pathologic variants of patients with BOTs who underwent conservative surgery at the Tianjin Central Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology between January 2009 and July 2015 were retrospectively analyzed. ...

PURPOSE Robotic surgery is known to provide an improved technical ability as compared to laparoscopic surgery. We aimed to compare the efficiency of surgical skills by performing the same experimental tasks using both laparoscopic and robotic systems in an attempt to determine if a robotic system has an advantage over laparoscopic system. METHODS Twenty participants without any robotic experi...

Background: Retroperitoneal laparoscopic nephropexy has been applied to nephroptosis. We investigate the approach and treatment effect of retroperitoneal laparoscopic nephropexy. Methods: From May 1990 to October 2013, 45 patients with nephroptosis treated in our hospital were retrospectively analyzed. Among them, 25 patients underwent nephropexy (open surgery group), the other 20 patients unde...

Minimally invasive surgery has been replacing the open standard technique in several procedures. Similar or even better postoperative outcomes have been described in laparoscopic or robot-assisted procedures when compared to open surgery. Moreover, minimally invasive surgery has been providing less postoperative pain, shorter hospitalization, and thus a faster return to daily activities. Howeve...

Laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer has been shown to be less invasive than open surgery, while maintaining a similar safety level in many clinical trials. Furthermore, there are no significant differences between laparoscopic surgery and open surgery with respect to the long-term outcomes in colon cancer. Thus, laparoscopic surgery has been accepted as one of the standard treatments for...

Objective: To retrospectively compare the postsurgical pain after single-port laparoscopic surgery and conventional laparoscopic salpingectomy for the surgical treatment of tubal pregnancy. Methods: The cases of two groups of patients with ectopic pregnancies were reviewed: those who had undergone a single-port laparoscopic surgery (n=6) and those who had undergone a conventional multi-port lap...

 ABSTRACT Background: The incidence of early wound related complications is assessed in laparoscopic versus open abdominal surgeries. Complications of surgical wounds (esp. wound infections) are considered as a major problem in surgery wards. Complications of surgical wounds are classified as early and late. Common and early complications are hematoma, seroma and wound infection. Methods: The m...

The developments in colon cancer treatment over the past two decades can be found largely in chemotherapy and laparoscopic surgery. Adjuvant chemotherapy increases survival in stage III and select stage II colon cancer patients [1, 2]. Reports in the literature have indicated that delaying the initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy for longer than eight weeks after surgery or after failure to comp...

The conventional laparoscopic approach to rectal surgery has several limitations, and therefore many colorectal surgeons have great expectations for the robotic surgical system as an alternative modality in overcoming challenges of laparoscopic surgery and thus enhancing oncologic and functional outcomes. This review explores the possibility of robotic surgery as an alternative approach in lapa...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the outcome of laparoscopic repair of ureteral injury in laparoscopic gynecologic surgery. DESIGN Prospective trial. SETTING University hospital. PATIENT(S) Forty patients with a ureteral lesion in laparoscopic surgery between 1991 and 2007. INTERVENTION(S) Laparoscopic ureteral repair, laparoscopic-assisted or blind stent insertion. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S) Tr...