...Wasakorn Suadee; Prapaporn Suprasert Objective: To compare the surgeon's satisfaction during gynecological laparotomy surgery and patient's satisfaction as well as quality of life (QOL) among 3 groups of bowel preparations: no enema vs. sodium chloride enema vs. soap-suds enema (SSE). Materials...

... size (p < 0.05) but not higher CA125 levels (p = 0.159). Twenty-nine patients (29.9%) underwent laparotomy, and 68 (70.1%), laparoscopic surgery. Laparoscopic surgery facilitated shorter operation times than laparotomy (p < 0.05). Tumorectomy was performed in 40 patients (43.5%), 36 (90%) of whom...

...Abdulkadir Turgut; Muhammet Erdal Sak; Gul Turkcu; Ali Ozler; Hatice Ender Soydinc; Mehmet Siddik Evsen; Osman Evliyaoglu; Fatih Akdemir Background: To determine the impact of caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE) on abdominal adhesion formation after laparotomy. Methods: Forty female rats were...

...Nawei Zhang; Haiyan Liu; Zhenyu Zhang; Shuzhen Wang; Shuli Guo Objective: To explore the impact of laparoscopy and laparotomy surgery on cellular immunity in patients with malignant uterine tumors. Methods: Thirty-eight women with uterine malignancies were enrolled in a prospective nonrandomized...

...H. Mecke; K. Semm; I. Freys; H.-J. Gent Between 1983 and 1988, we treated 66 patients with pelvic abscesses. Twenty-five patients required laparotomy and 41 underwent pelviscopy for treatment. The choice of the operative procedure, laparotomy or pelviscopy, depended on the age of the patient...

... treated by pelviscopy alone. Organ-preserving treatment was performed in 83%, oophorectomy or adnexectomy in only 17% of cases. Two stage la ovarian carcinomas (0.26% of all cysts) were operated on by pelviscopy before laparotomy. Sonography is particularly important in determining whether a pelviscopic...

... to in the content or advertisements. Early-stage ovarian cancer Laparotomy Cancer staging Survival Original Article Gynecol Obstet Invest 2007;63:132 136 DOI: 10.1159/000096435 Received: January 9, 2006 Accepted after revision: May 3, 2006 Published online: October 19, 2006 Long-Term Survival...

... leak-point pressure significantly increased in the laparoscopy group after the operation. There were no statistical differences in other urodynamics in both groups. The mean operating time in the laparoscopy group was longer than in the laparotomy group. The laparoscopy group required a significantly...

... and deep dyspareunia, underwent uterine ventrosuspension by laparotomy or laparoscopy during the period from 1981 to 1996. Only patients (56) with no pelvic pathologic condition, as identified intraoperatively, participated in the study. At the beginning of the year 2002, 41 out of 56 patients (73.2%) were...

...L. Kjellberg; A. Lalos; O. Lalos Objectives: Reproductive outcome after laparoscopy or laparotomy performed for treatment of ectopic pregnancy. Methods: Data of 104 women were collected by a questionnaire and from medical records. Results: No differences in pregnancy rate were found comparing...