Experimental model of the formation of pelvic adhesions by videolaparoscopic in female rabbits.
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.
Balbinotto
Rosi Pereira
RP
Clinics Hospital of Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. rosi.balbinotto@terra.com.br
Trindade
Manoel Roberto Maciel
MR
Muller
Ana Lucia Letti
AL
Nunes
André Gorgen
AG
Da Silva
Rodrigo
R
Meyer
Fabíola Schons
FS
Cerski
Carlos Thadeu Schmidt
CT
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*