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Table 2 Details of patients with bowel injury

From: Should we use visual entry techniques in patients with previous laparotomies?

No.

Year

Age (years)/B.M.I.(kg/m2)

Previous surgeries

Diagnosis

Entry method

Injury

Laparoscopic surgery performed

1

1999

30/21

1 (Laprotomy for abdominal Koch's disease)

Primary infertility

Closed

Dense adhesions between the abdominal wall and multiple small bowel loops. Single primary trocar entry wound on the bowel

Diagnostic laparoscopy, laparotomy & repair of small bowel injury

2

2001

46/27

2 (LSCS)

Multiple fibroids

Closed

Small bowel adherent to the anterior abdominal wall in the midline. Single primary trocar entry wound on the bowel.

TLH with BSO with laparoscopic repair of small bowel injury

3

2003

45/26

3 ( LSCS-2, appendicectomy-1)

Bilateral hydrosalpinx

Closed

Small bowel adherent to the umbilicus. Primary trocar went through and through the bowel

Laparoscopic adhesiolysis and bilateral salpingectomy with laparoscopic repair of small bowel injury

  1. LSCS lower segment caesarean section, TLH with BSO total laparoscopic hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy