Table of Contents
- Overview
- Results
- Risks
- Prevention
- Images
If you have had pelvic or abdominal surgery in the past, your doctor may not be able to perform laparoscopic surgery on you. Often surgery makes scars form, which may make it difficult or dangerous to pass the instruments into your belly and move them around.
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Pelvic laparoscopy
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Laparoscopy Prevention
Review Date: 08/21/2009
Reviewed By: James Lee, MD, Department of Surgery, Columbia Presbyterian Medical
Center, New York, NY. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare
Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director,
A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
