[Diverticular disease of the large bowel - surgical treatment].

Introduction: Surgical treatment, despite the rapid development of the numerous modern miniinvasive intervention techniques, remains essential in the treatment of complicated diverticular disease.

Aim: The aim of this work is to summarize indications for surgical treatment in both acute and elective patients suffering from diverticular disease of the large bowel.

Methods: Review of the literature and recent findings concerning indications for surgical intervention in patients with diverticulosis of the colon.

[Complications of laparoscopic procedures of inguinal hernias, diagnosed on colonoscopy].

Aim Of The Study: The aim was to assess significance of colonoscopy in detection of inguinal hernias - dislocation of the mesh into the lumen of the large intestine, following inguinal hernia laparoscopic procedures (TAPP).

Material, Methodology And Results: From 01-01-2004 to 31-12-2006, the authors performed 3 colonoscopies in 3 subjects after TAPP inguinal hernia laparoscopic procedures. The subjects included 2 males and 1 female, 4 to 9 months after the laparoscopic procedure, colonoscopy was performed, which was indicated for the lower abdominal pain and enterorrhagia.

[Laparoscopic management of epidermoid spleen cyst].

Spleen cysts are rare in the surgical practice. They may be primary or secondary. Primary cysts (true, with own lining) represent 30-40% of all cysts and occur mostly in children and young adults.

[Complications of the laparoscopic appendectomy].

706 appendectomic procedures using laparoscopy were performed in the Surgical Clinic of the FTN hospital during 2003-2005. The group's mortality rate was nil, the morbidity rated 3.54%.