conclusions previous abdominal surgery, including previous colonic surgery, confers no added risk of conversion to an open operation, morbidity or mortality for patients undergoing laparoscopic colorectal surgery. the operative time however is longer (30 minutes) for patients with previous colonic surgery. results out of 718 patients 476 had no previous abdominal surgery (group a), whilst 190 p...

background the benefits of laparoscopy over laparotomy include lower blood loss, decreased length of hospital stay, and decreased postoperative pain. it is unknown, however, whether patients with previous surgeries are good candidates for laparoscopic surgery. objectives to determine whether the location and type (laparoscopic surgery vs. laparotomy) of previous abdominal surgery is associated ...

a 47 years old lady presented with repeated intermittent, colicky, left upper, and periumblical abdominal pain associated with nausea and vomiting since two years prior to admission. each episode of the pain spontaneously subsided after bilious vomiting. the patient had no history of surgery, abdominal trauma or intra-abdominal infection, weight loss or previous history for small bowel obstruct...

background development of complications during gynecologic laparoscopic surgery depends on many factors such as history of previous laparotomies. this factor usually increases the veres and first trocar complications. objectives in this study, we compared all operative complications between the patients with and without previous abdominal surgery. patients and methods all operative complication...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic cholecystctomy has become the treatment of choice for symptomatic gallstones. The potential risks have dissuaded some surgeons from using the laparoscopic procedure in patients with previous abdominal surgery. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the effect of previous abdominal surgery on the feasibility and safety of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. METHODS This study inc...