A comparison of the effects of pneumoperitoneum and laparotomy on Natural Killer cell mediated cytotoxicity and Walker tumor growth in Wistar rats

Fuganti, Paulo Emílio; Rodrigues, Aldo Junqueira; Rodrigues, Consuelo Junqueira; Sato, Mariana Eri

doi:10.1007/s00464-005-0189-3

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“…As for peritonitis, concerns have been raised that the creation of capnoperitoneum in patients with established peritonitis may be detrimental with respect to potentiation of bacteremia, endotoxemia, and severe sepsis/ Experimental studies have yielded conflicting data in this regard. In animal models of peritonitis, endotoxemia, and the development of intra-abdominal abscesses do not seem to be increased by CO 2 laparoscopy when compared with control groups [15,42]. Over the past few years there have been increasing numbers of series reporting favorable results on the use of laparoscopy in the treatment of peritonitis [3,4,12,13,18,20,21,23,29,34,41,43].…”

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The laparoscopic approach in abdominal emergencies: has the attitude changed?

et al. 2007

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We believe that laparoscopy is not an alternative to physical examination/good clinical judgment or to conventional noninvasive diagnostic methods in treating the patient with symptoms of an acute abdomen. However it must be considered an effective option in treating patients in whom these methods fail and as a challenging alternative to open surgery in the management algorithm for abdominal emergencies.

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