Laparoscopic liver surgery: 8 years of multicenter Spanish register.

Background: To present the data of laparoscopy in liver surgery and to assess the real indications and outcomes of this kind of approach.

Methods: From February 2000 to March 2008, a prospective study was performed on 182 patients from 15 Spanish surgical centres.

Results: A total of 308 lesions was collected.

[Analysis of the Spanish National Registry of Laparoscopic Pancreatic Surgery].

Introduction: The reported experience with laparoscopic pancreatic surgery remains limited to case reports or small series of patients. A recent European multicenter study has allowed the limits and results of this technique to be known. This article presents an analysis of the results of the Spanish National Registry of Laparoscopic Pancreatic Surgery.

[Colorectal laparoscopy in the Canary Islands. A multicenter study of 144 patients].

Introduction: To analyze the short-term results of laparoscopic colorectal surgery (LCRS) in the Canary Islands.

Material And Methods: A questionnaire was sent to hospitals performing laparoscopy and retrospective data on demographic, perioperative and pathological variables in 144 patients who underwent LCRS between May 1993 and May 2003 were obtained.

Results: Sixty-five men and 79 women underwent colon (n=126) and rectal (n=18) surgery in the last 16 months of the study period.

Conservative treatment of a huge abdominal wall hematoma after laparoscopic appendectomy.

We report a case of a 30-year-old male patient who presented with a huge abdominal wall hematoma 60 minutes after laparoscopic appendectomy. During surgery there had been no sign of abdominal wall bleeding. We found a lateral abdominal wall hematoma caused by rupture of the abdominal epigastric artery after trocar insertion.