Diagnostic laparoscopy: A survey of 92 patients

A study of role of diagnostic and therapeutic laparoscopy in chronic and recurrent abdominal pain

“…The cause and symptoms of the present study were similar as observed in studies of Baria, Fayez et al, Schrenk et al [11][12][13] In the study, diagnostic laparoscopy was done in 63 patient and the etiology was identified in around 93.65% (59) cases and these findings are comparable to previously done aforementioned studies of Andreollo et al and Salky et al 14,15 According to the studies of Andreollo the etiology identified by laproscopy was around 86.3% cases of 168 patients and in the study of Salky the percentage of identified cases was 76% of 265 patients.…”

The efficacy of laparoscopic surgery in the diagnosis and treatment of peritonitis

“…Nevertheless this is the most likely explanation for this known complication [24] that occurs in conventional surgery, too. Her chronic, severe respiratory insufficiency due to heavy smoking for over 50 years very likely was another contributing factor for her death.…”

“…Given the excellent exposure and other benefits of laparoscopy [12,20,24] it is not surprising to find that many groups are beginning to report their results in the treatment of acute peritonitis. In our series, definitive treatment was possible by laparoscopy in 87.9% of patients with excellent postoperative results, such as those recently reported by Geis [16].…”

Early laparoscopy for the evaluation of nonspecific abdominal pain: a critical appraisal of the evidence

“…According to the Users' Guides to the Medical Literature published by JAMA [27,28] and the Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Group published by BMJ [29], studies comparing diagnostic tests must satisfy important conditions in order to yield reliable results. First, retrospective use of the tests and inverse directionality designs must not be considered because they could artificially increase certain operative characteristics [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. Second, only studies with a clinically relevant population must be included to assess the clinical utility of the test.…”