Kurtz BR

This retrospective review describes our experience with the benefits of laparoscopic incidental appendectomy performed in association with various gynecologic procedures. Eighty-five women in the reproductive age group (25 to 48 years of ag…

Fifty-five patients with endometriosis in whom argon beam coagulation was used through the laparoscope for coagulation of endometrial lesions, lysis of pelvic adhesions, uterosacral nerve ablation (LUNA) and presacral neurectomy (PSN) were …

A woman who had undergone operative laparoscopy with myomectomy, appendectomy and coagulation of endometriosis was readmitted on postoperative day 3 with a small bowel obstruction. At laparotomy she was found to have an incarcerated loop of…

OBJECTIVE: We assessed laparoscopic oophorectomy using three techniques. METHODS: From January 1989 to October 1991, 65 patients underwent laparoscopic oophorectomy using three techniques: bipolar coagulation, pretied ligature placement, an…

Forty-seven patients underwent laser laparoscopic management of endometriomas from 3 to 12 cm in diameter. Eighteen patients had infertility, 15 had pelvic pain, and 14 had both. The types of laser used were the carbon dioxide, argon, and p…

Laparoscopic appendectomy, for years performed only occasionally, is becoming more common with the increasing interest by both general surgeons and gynecologists in "minimally invasive surgery." A recently available automatic laparoscopic s…