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Query: UMLS:C0001511 (Adhesion)
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of exploratory laparoscopy in patients with chronic abdominal pain. Forty-six patients underwent diagnostic laparoscopy for abdominal pain of unknown origin during 1992-1996. The average duration of the symptoms was 3.5 years. Patients with known malignancy were excluded. Seventy-two percent of the patients had undergone previous abdominal or groin surgery. An organic disease was found in 68% of the laparoscopies. Adhesions were found in 29 patients, inguinal hernia in 2 patients, and abnormal mesenteric lymph nodes in 1 patient. Adhesiolysis was carried out in 24 patients. Eighty-nine percent of patients could be contacted for follow-up. Mean follow-up time was 19 months. Seventy-seven percent of patients who had undergone adhesiolysis considered the result good or beneficial. Sixty percent of all patients reported a beneficial outcome after laparoscopy. No major complications were noted. This retrospective study suggests that laparoscopy is a safe and useful procedure in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic abdominal pain.
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PMID:Laparoscopy for chronic abdominal pain. 995 Jan 27

Adhesion formation is a long-term complication of laparoscopic inguinal hernia surgery-particularly by the transabdominal preperitoneal technique; but it is not thought to occur after open repair. We describe a gentleman presenting with a recurrent hernia who had previously undergone an open mesh plug repair 4 years earlier. At laparoscopy he was found to have considerable adhesions associated with the plug. These were successfully divided before repair. This case illustrates the possibility of intra-abdominal adhesions developing even after open hernia surgery.
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PMID:Unexpected adhesions to a previously inserted preperitoneal mesh plug. 1680 63