Minimally invasive surgery has grown exponentially over the last two decades. With smaller incisions, reduced blood loss, shortened hospital stay and time to convalescence, and reduced postoperative pain, laparoscopy has gained momentum as the preferred approach to many surgical procedures. This is especially true in the field of urology where minimally invasive approaches to nephrectomy, adren...

The benefits of surgical treatment of disease have always been viewed as being obtained with a certain acceptable level of pain and trauma to the patient. Minimizing this untoward effect of any surgical procedure has been a driving force of laparoscopy since its inception in the early 1900s.1,2 Even with the clear benefits of laparoscopy over open surgery,3 we have continued to see a trend towa...

Since the introduction of laparoscopic surgery, the promise of lower postoperative morbidity and improved cosmesis has been achieved. Laparoendoscopic single-site surgery (LESS) potentially takes this further. Following the first human urological LESS report in 2007, numerous case series have emerged, as well as comparative studies comparing LESS with standard laparoscopy. However, comparative ...

Since its introduction, laparoscopy has gained more and more consent in colorectal surgery, even if its role in rectal cancer surgery is still controversial and widely debated. The aim of this study is to present the ongoing situation of laparoscopic surgery for rectal cancer by a review of current literature. We performed a systematic search in the electronic databases (PubMed, Web of Science,...

Laparoscopy for gynaecological procedures is minimally invasive and is mostly performed as a daycase. The advancement of laparoscopy and minimal access surgery has greatly influenced the evolution of anaesthetic techniques. Preoperative assessment can be simplified by the use of questionnaires in pre-assessment clinics. Intraoperative intravenous fluid administration improves patient well being...

BACKGROUND Posttraumatic diaphragmatic hernias (PDH) are serious complications of blunt and penetrating abdominal or thoracic trauma. Traditional thoracic or abdominal operations are usually performed in these cases. METHODS We present 2 cases of posttraumatic left-sided diaphragmatic hernia complicated by strangulation and colon obstruction. Both cases were successfully treated with laparosc...

INTRODUCTION Laparoscopy, as a minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic tool in blunt abdominal trauma (BAT), is not commonly used and has been shown to be controversial. The aim of this study is to assess the role of laparoscopy in the diagnosis and therapy of BAT. METHODS A systematic review and a comprehensive literature search was performed at the U.S. National Library of Medicine si...

Phytobezoars are a rare cause of small-bowel obstruction and an accurate preoperative diagnosis is very difficult. After diagnosis, the majority of patients in this study underwent surgery. The conventional management of small-bowel obstruction is done by laparotomy. Many studies have demonstrated that laparoscopy can be an alternative to laparotomy for the treatment of small-bowel obstruction ...

Introduction: Open surgery is gradually being supplanted by minimally invasive surgical techniques worldwide. Our study aimed to describe the place of at Hôpital Général Idrissa Pouye (HOGIP) in Dakar. Materials and Methods: This a descriptive cross-sectional over 20-years period from 1st June 2000 31st December 2021 urology department HOGIP The list all procedures performed was computed. We ev...

This review aims to analyse and describe the current role of laparoscopy in the treatment of cervical cancer. Laparoscopy has become an important tool in gynaecological oncology. Its general advantages in comparison with open surgery apply to oncological patients as much as they do to benign conditions. Data from retrospective and case-control studies have proven that treatment of early cervica...