Laparoscopy

Mortality Audit of Octogenarians With Acute Cholecystitis

General Surgery
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Arkadiusz Peter Wysocki, FRACS, Jennifer Allen, BSc(Hons), Therese Rey-Conde, MPH, John B. North, FRACS Department of Surgery, Logan Hospital, Meadowbrook, Queensland, Australia (Dr. Wysocki). Queensland Audit of Surgical Mortality, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, East Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (Drs. Allen, Rey-Conde, and North). ABSTRACT Background and Objectives: The mortality rate of patients with acute cholecystitis […]

Laparoscopic Treatment of Giant Abdominal Lymphangioma in a Child

Pediatric & Adolescent Surgery
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Giulia Giannotti, MD, Giovanni Boroni, MD, Luca Giacomo Tonegatti, MD, Susanna Milianti, MD, Fabio Torri, MD, Marco Schiavo Lena, MD, Daniele Alberti, MDDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, University of Brescia, Italy (Drs. Giannotti, Boroni, Tonegatti, Milianti, Torri, Lena, Alberti). Department of Pathological Anatomy, University of Brescia, Italy (Dr. Marco). ABSTRACT Giant cystic lymphangioma (GCL) is a

Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery in Pregnancy

OB/GYN Laparoscopy
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Ismail A. Al-Badawi, MD, Hanan Alshankiti, MD, Sarfraz Ahmad, PhD King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Drs Al-Badawi and Alshankiti). Florida Hospital Cancer Institute, Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Orlando, FL, USA (Dr Ahmad). ABSTRACT Laparoendoscopic single-site surgery, also known as single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS), is

Laparoscopic Liver Partition and Portal Vein Ligation for Staged Hepatectomy

General Surgery, Surgical Endoscopy
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Juan Pekolj, MD, PhD, Fernando A. Alvarez, MD, Victoria Ardiles, MD, Pablo Huespe, MD, Virginia Cano Busnelli, MD, Eduardo de Santibañes, MD, PhD Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery Section and Liver Transplant Unit, General Surgery Service, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Juan D. Perón 4190, C1181ACH, Buenos Aires, Argentina (all authors). ABSTRACT Introduction: Associating liver partition and portal

Biliary Stricture After a Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass with Remnant Gastrectomy

Gastroenterology, General Surgery
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Salvador Navarrete Llopis, MD, Igor Bello, MD, José Luis Leyba, MD, Gabriel Escalona, MD, Cono Gumina Department of General Surgery, Hospital Universitario de Caracas, Venezuela (Drs. Llopis, Escalona). Department of General Surgery, Universidad de Carabobo, Naguanagua, Venezuela (Dr. Bello). Department of General Surgery, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela (Dr. Leyba). Department of Gastroenterology, Clínica Santa Sofía, Caracas,

Laparoscopic Colectomy for Colon Cancer After Liver Transplantation

General Surgery, Surgical Endoscopy, Transplantation
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Gustavo Rossi, MD, Ricardo Mentz, MD, Carlos A. Vaccaro, MD, PhD, Fernando A. Alvarez, MD, Guillermo Ojea Quintana, MDSection of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Juan D. Peron 4190, C1181ACH, Buenos Aires, Argentina (all authors). ABSTRACTIntroduction: Colon cancer in liver transplant patients is an uncommon clinical situation.

Early Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Resection of Ruptured Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Transplantation
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Brian K. P. Goh, MBBS, MMed, MSc, FRCS, Pierce K. H. Chow, MBBS, MMed, PhD, FRCS Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary and Transplant Surgery, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore (all authors). Duke–NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore (all authors). ABSTRACT Laparoscopic liver resection has increasingly been used as a therapeutic modality in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, its use in

Intrauterine Device Transmigration Into Sigmoid Bowel in Early Pregnancy

OB/GYN Laparoscopy, Surgical Endoscopy
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Lauren Schiff, MD Women’s Health Services, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA ABSTRACT Introduction: Uterine perforation at the time of intrauterine device (IUD) insertion is estimated to occur at a rate of 1 per 1000 insertions. Most published cases describing transmigration into abdominal viscera are in the setting of

Rare Occurrence of Small-Bowel Volvulus Following Laparoscopic Appendectomy

General Surgery, Surgical Endoscopy
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Andrea Rossetti, MD, Michel Adamina, PD, Franziska Naef, MD, M. Zadnikar, Sascha A. Mueller, PD Klinik fur Chirurgie, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Switzerland (all authors).ABSTRACT Introduction: Laparoscopy has proven to be safe for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in patients with suspected acute appendicitis.Case Description: We report a case of a rare occurrence of small-bowel volvulus after

Failed Systemic Methotrexate Treatment in a Rudimentary Horn Pregnancy

OB/GYN Laparoscopy, Surgical Endoscopy
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Maya Frank Wolf, MD, Talia Stahl Rosenzweig, MD, Naama Marcus Braun, MD, Inbar Ben-Shachar, MDDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ziv Medical Center, Zfat, Israel (all authors). ABSTRACT We report the case of a patient with unicornuate uterus and an intrarudimentary horn first-trimester ectopic pregnancy. This rare pregnancy was diagnosed by laparoscopy and did not respond

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