LAPAROSCOPIC SECOND - LOOK UNDER LOCAL ANAESTHESIA AFTER BOWEL RESECTION

The case concerns a 65-year old male with acute abdomen who had had severe generalized abdominal pain with cardiovascular disease. Extensive small bowel resection, right hemicolectomy and jejunotransversostomy were performed for mesenterial infarction with laparotomy. On the postoperative first day, second-look laparoscopy was performed under local anaesthesia.Key Words: Laparoscopy - Mesenteric vascular occlusion local anasthesia

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