Michael P. Diamond

Assisting with the management of endoscopic complications Postoperative nausea and vomiting Anesthesia for laparoscopy Insufflation needle insertion techniques: management of perforation of bowel and bladder Acute urinary retention after la…

Introduction: The history and development of endoscopic surgery, Alan Gordon. Part 1 Laparoscopic surgery - techniques and equipment: setting up a service - instrumentation and administration, Grant Patton a practical approach to diagnostic…

The Cause and Prevention of Postsurgical Adhesions: A Contemporary Review Electromicrosurgery Techniques in Laparoscopy That Reduce Postsurgical Adhesions Overview of Classical Adjuvant Approaches Adhesions and Chronic Pain Laparoscopic Ova…

Surgical modalities such as electrosurgery and lasers have been used for many years to treat endometriosis. They are relatively unselective with wide scatter, however, leading to the potential for significant tissue damage and injury. As an…

The use of lasers in reproductive pelvic surgery has been established, based more on the reports of clinical experience than demonstration of improved efficacy as compared to other therapeutic modalities. Superiority of one type of laser ov…

Sixty-eight women underwent laparotomy for endometriosis associated with infertility. They were not candidates for laser laparoscopy by our criteria, or they had failed to conceive after previous therapy. The cumulative pregnancy rate was 7…

Gynecologic use of lasers in the performance of operative procedures continues to expand. The potassium-titanyl-phosphate (KTP/532) laser has a wavelength in the visible spectrum and is transmitted along a fiber. This laser was used in the …

The major advantage of the argon laser in laparoscopic reproductive pelvic surgery is the ability to transmit the laser beam along a flexible fiber that can easily be directed at a lesion. Its use has been specifically described for the tre…