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Background: Acute appendicitis is the most common nonobstetric cause of acute abdomen in pregnant women. In this study, we aimed to evaluate pregnant patients who were operated on for acute appendicitis in our center, which has a large pregnant population, in the light of the literature. Materials and Methods: The data of patients operated on for acute appendicitis between November 2015 and August 2022 were retrospectively examined and recorded electronically. The patients' complaints, physical examination findings, radiological data, operation type, and pathological data were recorded and examined in the light of the literature. Results: The average age of 37 patients who underwent appendectomy was 27.7 (20-42) years. In these patients, acute appendicitis was diagnosed most frequently in the 2nd trimester (48.6%). The most common presenting complaint of the patients was abdominal pain, and the most common physical examination finding was abdominal tenderness. Considering the admission time of the patients, it was observed that a delay of more than 24 hours increased the risk of perforation. Although the most common histopathological finding was acute appendicitis, malignancy was detected in one patient and enterobius vermicularis was detected in another. Conclusions: Acute appendicitis should be kept in mind in patients with new-onset right lower quadrant abdominal pain during pregnancy. Because delay in diagnosis and therefore surgery causes serious morbidity and mortality for both the fetus and the mother. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The aim of our study is to compare laparoscopic and abdominal myomectomies performed in our clinic and to evaluate the feasibility and safety of laparoscopic myomectomies. Materials and Methods: In this study, we retrospectively evaluated 314 cases who were threated with myomectomy operation in our clinic between 2012-2022. All of the cases were divided into two groups with respect to the surgical procedure performed. 314 patients were in the abdominal myomectomy group, 47 patients were in the laparoscopic myomectomy group and the groups were compared. Results: There was no statistically significant difference between the groups in terms of demographic data (p>0.05). When the groups were evaluated in terms of postoperative white blood cell(WBC), hemoglobin, hematocrit, platelet values, operation time, hospitalisation time, postoperative blood transfusion and perioperative complications, no statistically significant difference was observed (p>0.05). There were no statistically significant difference in terms of preoperative WBC and CRP values between the groups, but postoperative WBC and CRP values were lower in the laparoscopic myomectomy group (p<0.05). Conclusions: Laparoscopic myomectomy has a short recovery time and aesthetic advantage. However, equipment and the need of experienced surgeons limit its applicability. With the development of laparoscopic technologies and increasing the experience of surgeons with laparoscopic surgery, it will provide a serious advantage over the abdominal method in terms of less blood loss, less hospital stay, shorter operation times, less trauma and better cosmetic results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: Acute apandicitis is a common cause of emergency surgery in general surgery practise. In this study we aimed to share our experience on laparascopic apendectomy, evaluate the reliability and applicability of laparascopic apendectomy. Materials and Methods: Data of patients diagnosed as acute apandicitis and underwent laparascopic apendectomy were obtained retrospectively from hospital records between March 2012 -- October 2013. Sixty-five patients who were operated by the same team included in this study. Patients demografic results, open apendectomy rates, operation times and hospitalitation times were evaluated. Results: Mean age of patients included in the study was 32.05 ± 11.25. Thirty patients (%46.15) were male and 35 patients (%53.85) were female. Apendix was seen normal in three patient (%4.61) and apendectomy was not performed. Perforation of appendix was seen in 8 patients (%12.3). In 5 patients operation was turned to open apendectomy (%7.69). Wound infection was seen in three of four patients and intraabdominal locale liquid with air values was seen in one of four patients. Mean operation time was 42.15 ± 17.8 minutes. Conclusion: Laparascopic appendectomy is an prefered method for treatment of acute apandicitis but if it is necessary, open appendectomy has to be prefered and optimal treatment tecniques must be chosen for the patient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: To present our hospital data, comparing to laparotomic and laparoscopic hysterectomias' features and their complications in our clinic. Materials and Method: 159 patients that undergone laparotomic and laparoscopic hysterectomy between January 2010 and December 2015 in Harran University, Faculty of Medicine, Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinic, were analyzed retrospectively. The patients divided two groups: as laparotomy and laparoscopy. Demografic features, operation types, operation times,indications of hysterectomy, and postoperative complications of patients were analysed retrospectively. SPSS software was used for statistical studies, and p values < 0.05 were accepted statistically significant. Results: There was no significant difference according to age, body mass index, pre - postoperative hemoglobin values, and uterin diameters (1 and 2) in both groups. However uterin diameter 3 and total uterin volume were smaller in laparoscopy group (p < 0.001 and p = 0.018, respectively). Abnormal uterin bleeding was seen the most common indication of hysterectomy in both groups. Perioperative blood transfusion and time of hospitalisation were similarly in both groups. However the operation time was significantly longer in LSK group than laparotomy (p < 0.001). We saw that usually laparotomic approach was preferred in patients with previous surgery. Conclusion: When the data are evaluated, we saw that laparoscopic hysterectomy cases were increased with the experience of our clinic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recently, laparoscopic urologic surgical procedures have been preferred for most of the major urologic surgical procedures in advanced surgical centers. Upto now, benefits of laparoscopic urologic surgeries have been presented in numerous studies. The consciousness has been appeared in patients parallel to clinicians prefered these surgical options. Although there are some benefits, there are complications in laparoscopic urologic surgery, notably gastrointestinal complications can annoy. In this review, we evaluated gastrointestinal complications of laparoscopic urologic surgery and its diagnosis methods in view of current literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Aim of this study is to evaluate the results of diagnostic laparoscopy in 82 infertile women. Methods: Eighty-two infertile women that underwent diagnostic laparoscopy were examined retrospectively and pelvic pathologies were classified. Results: Pathologic findings were observed in 65.85% of cases and 34.1 5% of patients had no abnormal finding. Pathologic findings were classified as; tubal (40.24%), ovarian (1.22%), uterine (4.88%), endometriosis (10.98%), pelvic inflammatory disease (244%) and mixed pathologies (6.09%). Frequency of endometriosis is 11.32% in primary and 10.34% in secondary infertile cases. Adnexal adhesions were observed in 37.80% of infertile cases; predominantly in secondary infertile cases (44.82%) and less frequently in primary infertile cases (33.96%). Minimal, mild, moderate and severe adnexal adhesions were observed in 41.94%, 38.48%, 12.90% and 9.68%; respectively. Conclusions: Laparoscopy plays an important role both in the diagnosis and evaluation of infertility. We have the opinion that it would be inappropriate to evaluate infertility without laparoscopy, especially in the presence of pelvic adhesion and endometriosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]