Background: In standard cholecystectomy gall bladder is approached through a subcostal incision of 710cm. New techniques and procedures have evolved, aiming at decreased tissue damage, pain, hospital stay, and complications. This study was conducted to assess cholecystectomy through 5cm mini laparotomy. Material & Methods: This descriptive study was conducted at department of Surgery Khyber Tea...

Background. The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of laparotomy on the systemic inflammatory response in human patients suffering from secondary peritonitis. Study Design. A prospective study investigating the levels of white blood cells, C-reactive protein, platelets, interleukin-six, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha during laparotomy in five patients who suffered from secondary pe...

Diagnostic laparoscopy is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that allows the visual examination and documentation of intra abdominal organs in order o detect any pathology. Diagnostic laparoscopy was first introduced in 1901, when kelling, performed a peritoneoscopy in a dog and was called “Celioscopy”. A Swedish internist named Jacobaeuse its credited with performing the first Diagnostic ...

Fire in the operating theater is a rare but potentially fatal complication. We report igniting an intraperitoneal fire while preforming an exploratory laparotomy for perforated viscus. Fortunately, the patient suffered no injuries as a result.

E.H.,European, 29 years of age, occupation nil, was admitted into the General Hospital about midnight on the 20th April 1894, complaining of great pain in the abdomen, vomiting, and much prostration; and he stated that he had had no movement of the bowels for three days. Previous history.?The only points worth noting here are, that he had been subject to epileptic fits from childhood, and that ...

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...

OBJECTIVE To analyze clinical results and financial costs of salpingo-oophorectomy performed by laparoscopy versus laparotomy. STUDY DESIGN Comparison of laparoscopic salpingo-oophorectomy with procedures performed by laparotomy. SETTING St. Vincent's Hospital and Fallon Clinic in Worcester, Massachusetts. PATIENTS Twenty women in both groups. INTERVENTIONS Salpingo-oophorectomies perfo...

Staging laparotomy is a useful procedure as long as regional radiotherapy continues to be the primary modality of treatment for early Hodgkin's disease. However, many oncologists have extended the indications for systemic chemotherapeutic agents. Studies are in progress to evaluate the effectiveness of chemotherapy alone for all patients with B symptoms as well as for those with stages I and II...

Background: Abdominal surgery that has to be re-done in association with initial (Index surgery), within 60 days of surgery, is referred as re-laparotomy. Redolaparotomies are called, on demand, if laparotomy because patient condition and planned, the second decided upon during course first itself. Re-laparotomy associated increased morbidity mortality. To find out incidence, indications, morta...

BACKGROUND Although pregnancy-related laparotomy is a major intervention, literature is limited to small case-control or single center studies. We aimed to identify national incidence rates for postpartum laparotomy related to severe acute maternal morbidity (SAMM) in a high-income country and test the hypothesis that risk of postpartum laparotomy differs by mode of birth. METHODS In a popula...