In consideration of a more liberal use of CT for right lower quadrant pain ... that the use of CT significantly reduces the negative laparotomy rate without increasing the perforation rate.

The mean amount of bleeding in the minimally invasive surgical group was 305.1 mL, which was significantly lower than that in the laparotomy group (561.2 mL). The average hospitalization period ...

A recent retrospective analysis by Low and colleagues compared the use of laparotomy, MRI, and serum cancer antigen-125 (CA-125) levels for the detection of residual tumor in women treated for ...