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العنوان
The role of preoperative laparoscopy in abdominal malignancies /
المؤلف
Azab, Mohamed Abd El-Maksoud Abd El-Wahab.
الموضوع
General Surgery. Abdominal Neoplasms - surgery.
تاريخ النشر
2004.
عدد الصفحات
88 p. :
الفهرس
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Abstract

This study about diagnostic laparoscopy was done on 20 patients with known or suspected abdominal malignancy. Those
patients underwent clinical and radiological evaluation before
laparoscopic evaluation.
Diagnostic laparoscopy was carried on 20 patients; 13 males (65%) and 7 females (35%). The age of the patients ranged from 30 to 70 ears. they
included 8 patients with colorectal tumours (40%) [3 patients with
rectosegmoid tumours (15%),4 patients with Rt. side. cancer colon
(20%), one patient with left side cancer colon (5%)]. the remaining
12 patients included 4 patients with pancreatic tumours -12 (20%),
3 patients with gastric tumours (15%),2 patients with abdominal
non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (10%), One patient with ovarian tumour
(5%),2 patients with primary liver tumour (10%) In this study we studied the site primary tumour, ascites,
peritoneal seedlings, hepatic metastasis, abdominal lymph nodes
metastasis and presence of adhesions in all patients.