Minilaparoscopic versus conventional laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Purpose: We evaluated reports of minilaparoscopic cholecystectomy as compared to conventional laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Materials And Methods: We searched the Medline, Embase, and Cochrane library databases for randomized controlled trials reported between January 1996 to December 2005. The outcome measures used were operative time, length of hospital stay, postoperative pain, postoperative analgesic requirement, and cosmetic results.

Endoscopic stenting versus surgical gastroenterostomy for palliation of malignant gastroduodenal obstruction: a meta-analysis.

Background: We attempted to elucidate the current status of endoscopic self-expanding metal stents for palliation of malignant gastroduodenal obstruction in comparison with surgical gastroenterostomy.

Methods: Original articles and abstracts published from January 1990 to September 2006 were searched in Medline, EMBASE, and Cochrane Controlled Trials Register databases. Clinical appraisal and data extraction were independently conducted by two reviewers.

Internal hernia with strangulation through a mesenteric defect after laparoscopy-assisted transverse colectomy: report of a case.

A 58-year-old woman underwent laparoscopy-assisted transverse colectomy for transverse colon cancer. On postoperative day 7, she experienced sudden abdominal pain accompanied by vomiting and fever. Computed tomography showed a small bowel obstruction caused by an internal hernia.

Meta-analysis of short-term outcomes after laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy.

Aim: To elucidate the current status of laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) with regard to its short-term outcomes by comparing it with conventional open distal gastrectomy (CODG).

Methods: Original articles published from January 1991 to August 2006 were searched in the MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Controlled Trials Register. Clinical appraisal and data extraction were conducted independently by 2 reviewers.

Synchronous adenocarcinomas of the ileum and transverse colon detected by capsule endoscopy: report of a case.

A 77-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with anemia and anorexia. Neither gastrointestinal endoscopy nor computed tomography showed by abnormal findings; however, a capsule endoscopy, performed to detect obscure gastrointestinal bleeding, revealed a tumor in the ileum. When we tried to take biopsies of the ileal tumor by push enteroscopy via the anus, we found another tumor in the transverse colon.

[A case of asymptomatic adrenal hematoma which progressively enlarged during follow-up].

We report a case of asymptomatic adrenal hematoma that enlarged during a 3-year follow-up. A 66-year-old woman exhibited a 4 cm right adrenal mass, incidentally discovered by computed tomography of abdomen, which progressively enlarged to 6 cm in diameter during the 3 years. The patient underwent right adrenalectomy with a diagnosis of a suspected non-functional adrenal tumor.