in this paper, we discuss the present situation of laparoscopy in gynecology. there is no doubt that hospital stay, postoperative pain and convalescence are less when it is possible to treat gynecologic disease via laparoscopy. however, for reaching the final conclusion about the other effects of this kind of surgery, e.g., adhesion formation after operation, pregnancy rate, etc., a series of p...

laparoscopically-assisted vaginal hysterectomy (lavh) was performed in fifteen patients without invasive cancer. indications for hysterectomy were myomas, abnormal uterine bleeding unresponsive to hormonal treatment and dilatation and curettage, chronic pelvic pain with first degree uterine prolapse and possible adenomyosis, and dysplasia and ovarian cyst in postmenopausal years. no significant...

OBJECTIVE We compared the surgical outcomes of pregnant women undergoing laparotomy in the first 2 trimesters of pregnancy with those undergoing laparoscopy for the management of acute pelvic pain. METHODS We performed a systematic retrospective chart review of patients whose discharge diagnosis included intrauterine pregnancy with exploratory laparotomy or laparoscopy from August 1, 1993 to ...

Aim. To find out the changing trends in indications for use of laparoscopy for diagnostic or operative procedures in gynaecology. Methods. This was a clinical audit of 417 women who underwent laparoscopic procedures over a period of 8 years from January 2005 to December 2012 in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at a tertiary care centre in Delhi. Results. A total of 417 diagnostic an...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To compare robotic-assisted laparoscopy with conventional laparoscopy for treatment of advanced stage endometriosis insofar as operative time, estimated blood loss, complication rate, and length of hospital stay. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study (Canadian Task Force classification II2). All procedures were performed by one surgeon between January 2004 and July 2012. Dat...

Advanced operative laparoscopy is being performed increasingly for various indications and in diverse patient populations, including gravid women. In the United States approximately 1.6% to 2.2% of pregnant women require nonobstetric surgery for abdominal and pelvic pathology. Increasing numbers of case reports suggest the feasibility and safety of operative laparoscopy during pregnancy. We ide...

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine under the view literature, the indications, findings, and complications of diagnostic and operative laparoscopy performed at a teaching hospital. Methods: A total of 503 cases for which the laparoscopy was performed for diagnostic and operative purposes was included into this study. Demographic characteristics, length of operative time, le...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate surgical outcomes for gynecologic surgery performed by single-incision laparoscopy compared with conventional multi-incision laparoscopy. DATA SOURCES We searched MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and clinicaltrials.gov through August 2012. We also screened reference lists of retrieved articles and manually searched abstracts from conferenc...