Acute abdomen due to strangulated intravesical hernia with incidental finding of kidney tumor: A case report and literature review.

Internal supravesical hernia is a rare type of internal abdominal hernia with overall incidence <4% of all internal abdominal hernias. The clinical diagnosis is a major preoperative diagnostic challenge for both the surgeon and the radiologist. It is a rare cause of small bowel obstruction, but in case of strangulation it can be fatal and it necessitates urgent surgical intervention.

Feasibility of applying data mining techniques for predicting technical difficulties during laparoscopic cholecystectomy based on routine patient work-up in a small community hospital.

Background/aims: Predicting technical difficulties in laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) in a small regional hospital increases efficacy, cost-benefit and safety of the procedure. The aim of the study was to assess whether it is possible to accurately predict a difficult LC (DLC) in a small regional hospital based only on the routine available clinical work-up parameters (patient history, ultrasound examination and blood chemistry) and their combinations.

Methodology: A prospective, cohort, of 369 consecutive patients operated by the same surgeon was analyzed.

[A prospective evaluation of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the treatment of chronic cholelithiasis--a five-year experience].

Introduction: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a method of choice in the treatment of symptomatic cholecystolithiasis because of less postoperative pain, shorter hospitalization and lower cost of treatment. The study was aimed at analysing the outcome of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in patients surgically treated for chronic calculous cholecystitis (symptomatic cholelithiasis).

Material And Methods: The research was done in the period from December 2003 to December 2008.

[Laparoscopic cholecystectomy of acute cholecystitis].

Introduction: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a method of choice for surgical treatment of diseases of gallbladder. Although most surgeons today use laparoscopic cholecystectomy in treatment of severe acute cholecystitis, most surgeons still consider acute cholecystitis a relevant contraindication for laparoscopic cholecystectomy because of "confused" anatomy and "severe" pathology. Aim of the study was to analyze laparoscopic cholecystectomy outcomes in treatment of acute cholecystitis.