title: Experimental model of the formation of pelvic adhesions by videolaparoscopic in female rabbits.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To verify the frequency of postsurgical pelvic adhesion formation in an experimental animal model using videolaparoscopy.
  
  
  METHODS
  Experimental study in a sample of 11 non-pregnant female rabbits, aged 5 to 7 months. After general anesthesia, access to the abdominal cavity was performed by an open puncture technique, with 10mm optics, placing two other 5 mm trochars under direct visualization, in the iliac fossae. Then a fragment of peritoneum was resected, followed by electrocauterization. In 21 days, the videolaparoscopy was repeated, and adhesion formation and score was looked at, with biopsies at the surgical site.
  
  
  RESULTS
  54 % of adhesion formation was observed, and the median score of adhesions was 6 (minimum of 3 and maximum of 10), all of them found in the bladder and the anterior abdominal wall.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The method used presents a high frequency of intra-abdominal adhesion formation.
authors.affiliation: Clinics Hospital of Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. rosi.balbinotto@terra.com.br
authors.forename: Rosi Pereira
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Balbinotto
authors.forename: Manoel Roberto Maciel
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Trindade
authors.forename: Ana Lucia Letti
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Muller
authors.forename: André Gorgen
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Nunes
authors.forename: Rodrigo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Da Silva
authors.forename: Fabíola Schons
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: Carlos Thadeu Schmidt
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Cerski
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010532:Peritoneal Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D011817:Rabbits; D000267:Tissue Adhesions / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D020535:Video-Assisted Surgery / Q000009:adverse effects*