Laparoscopic versus open management of duodenal perforation: a comparative study at a District General Hospital.

Introduction: Duodenal perforation is one of the common pathologies in patients presenting in emergency with acute abdominal pain in an emergency ward and requires prompt surgery as life saving and curative intervention. The present study was conducted to determine whether the minimal access approach by laparoscopy was equally feasible as the open method.

Aim: To compare laparoscopic vs.