Comparison of laparoscopic and laparotomic surgery for the treatment of peritoneal inclusion cyst.
OBJECTIVE
Peritoneal inclusion cyst (PIC) is defined as a fluid-filled mesothelial-lined cysts of the pelvis and it is most frequently encountered in women of reproductive age. The treatment options are observation, hormonal management, imaging-guided aspiration, image-guided sclerotherapy and surgical excision. The objective of this study is to compare between the laparoscopic and laparotomic surgery for the treatment of PIC.


METHODS
Thirty-five patients with laparoscopy and forty-eight patients with laparotomy were included in the study. We compared the perioperative and postoperative data, the complications and the recurrence between the two groups.


RESULTS
There was a significantly reduced mean length of the hospital stay, estimated blood loss and complication rate in the laparoscopic group as compared to that of the laparotomic group (P=0.037, P=0.047 and P=0.037 respectively). There was also no statistical difference of recurrence rate between thelaparoscopic and laparotomic groups on the Cox proportional hazards model (p=0.209).


CONCLUSIONS
Our study showed that laparoscopy was superior to the laparotomy for the mean estimated blood loss, the mean length of the hospital stay and the complication rate except for the recurrence rate.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Catholic University of Medicine, Korea.
Suk Woo
SW
Lee
Sung Jong
SJ
Lee
Dong Gyu
DG
Jang
Joo Hee
JH
Yoon
Jang Heub
JH
Kim
D000328:Adult; D003560:Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008875:Middle Aged; D010388:Pelvis / Q000473:pathology; D010532:Peritoneal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D012008:Recurrence