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The purpose of this prospective study was to determine whether laparoscopic adhesiolysis ameliorates chronic abdominal pain in patients with abdominal adhesions. Forty-five patients with chronic abdominal pain lasting for more than 6 months but with no abnormal findings other than adhesions found at laparoscopy underwent laparoscopic adhesiolysis. Thirty-six patients (80%) were available for follow-up after a median time interval of 10 months (range: 6–36 months). Seventeen patients (47.2%) were free from abdominal pain and 13 patients (36.1%) reported significant amelioration of their pain. Six (16.6%) patients had no amelioration. Twenty-nine patients (80.6%) judged the outcome of the operation to be good or beneficial and 35 (97.2%) said that they would undergo the operation a second time if that were necessary. Laparoscopy is an effective tool for the evaluation of patients with chronic abdominal pain, and laparoscopic adhesiolysis cures or ameliorates chronic abdominal pain in more than 80% of patients.
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Mueller, M.D., Tschudi, J., Herrmann, U. et al. An evaluation of laparoscopic adhesiolysis in patients with chronic abdominal pain. Surg Endosc 9, 802–804 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00190085
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