Isolated Fallopian Tube Torsion with Necrotic Hemorrhagic Cyst in an 11-Year-Old Girl Diagnosed by Laparoscopy.

Isolated fallopian tube torsion (IFTT) is a rare pathology that causes acute abdomen in women, it is even less common in pediatric patients. We present a case of an 11-year-old girl who presented with abdominal pain 24 hours of evolution, the diagnosis could not be specified with cabinet methods, so the definitive diagnosis was made using a diagnostic laparoscopy. A necrotic hemorrhagic tubal cyst was found.

[A 33 year old woman with a six-year history of slight thoracic-abdominal pain].

We present a case of a benign hybrid nerve sheath tumor showing features of both cellular schwannoma and perineurioma.The patient was a 33 year-old female who presented with a 6 month history of pain in the thorax-lumbar region.Axial CT and MIR images showed and homogeneously enhancing solid oval mass involving the left paravertebra region in contact with the vertebral foramina T9-T11.

The role of minimal invasive surgery in surgical education.

The first laparoscopic cholecystectomy carried out in 1985 generated a great enthusiasm about the new surgical technique; however, it was evident that educational techniques required improvement because this new procedure presented a higher prevalence of injuries in the biliary tract than conventional surgery. Minimally invasive surgery has a number of advantages over open surgery. Some of these advantages allowed the use of technology in order to generate experts, evaluate them objectively, document the process in video, assess their competence and use simulators to improve overall surgical education.

[Bile duct laparoscopic exploration].

The use of ERCP with endoscopic esphincterotomy (ES) for the management of choledocholithiasis has replaced almost completely common bile duct exploration in the era of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Once the procedure is completed it is followed by laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the same hospitalization. During the last few years, the development of new technology and equipment with possibilities of minimal invasive procedures and diagnosis, as well as the ongoing surgical skills has allowed surgeons to solve the problem of choledocholithiasis in one minimal invasive procedure, decreasing effectively morbidity with a high success rate, changing again ERCP with ES as a complement and not as a substitute for surgery.

[Actual status of laparoscopic cholecystectomy].

Introduction: Since the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy in 1988, the management of gall-bladder disease has changed importantly. This technique was rapidly popularized in the U.S.

[Current status and long-term results of laparoscopic anti-reflux surgery].

Background: Laparoscopic surgery has a great application for the treatment of different pathologies of the gastrointestinal tract. In the management of gastroesophageal reflux disease it is not a exception, since its introduction in 1991 this technique has evolved constantly.

Objective: Analyze and evaluate indications, surgical technique and long term results of laparoscopic surgery as a treatment for gastro-esophageal reflux disease.