From: Chronic abdominal pain: the role of adhesions and benefit of laparoscopic adhesiolysis
 | Klingensmith et al. (1996) [33] | Salky and Edye (1998) [32] | Onders and Mittendorf (2003) [30] | Swank et al. (2003) [50] | Paajanen et al. (2005) [6] |
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Number of patients | 34 | 265 | 70 | 340 | 72 |
Pathology (%)a | |||||
  Adhesions | 58 | 26 | 56 | 96 | 85 |
  None | 30 | 24 | 14 | 2 | 8 |
  Hernia | 9 | 2 | 19 | 1 | 1.4 |
  Abnormal appendix | 3 | 26 | 16 | 1 | 1.4 |
  Endometriosis | 6 | 3 | 4 | – | – |
  Abnormal gallbladder | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | – |
  Miscellaneous | 6 | 20 | – | 2 | 5.5%b |