After several failed attempts of reduction via laparoscopy, a decision to convert to laparotomy was made due to the high probability of intestinal perforation. After reduction, the small bowel ...

ALTHOUGH the consequences of extensive resection ... prompt laparotomy necessary. At operation, superior-mesenteric-artery thrombosis and approximately 150 cm. of gangrenous small bowel were ...

Small bowel cancer (also called small intestine cancer) is cancer that starts in the small bowel. Clinical Oncologist Katherine Aitkens explains bowel cancer in the video below. She gives an overview ...

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An exploratory laparotomy found intestinal necrosis and so we carried out a segmental small bowel resection—removing a 110 cm section of the small intestine (figure). Histopathological examination of ...

Most tumours require resection of a part of the small bowel. In these cases minor laparotomy is applied to remove the tumour and small bowel resection can thus be performed without major difficulties ...

Our general surgery service was consulted, and we performed an emergency exploratory laparotomy, which found perforation ... We considered an excisional biopsy and small bowel resection of the ...

You might have a laparoscopic (minimally invasive) procedure, which is done with a few small incisions. Or, you might need an open laparotomy ... in bowel obstruction surgery, including: Removal of an ...

The definitive diagnosis of small bowel metastasis is best obtained after laparotomy or exploratory laparoscopy and resection of the intestinal lesion (12). In the surgical approach, performing a ...

In the second-look exploratory laparotomy 2 days later ... a colon segment as bile drainage conduit in a patient with biliary atresia and extensive small bowel resection. The proposed procedure could ...