title: Role of laparoscopy in the prevention and in the treatment of adhesions.
abstract: The formation of adhesions after abdominal surgery can lead to increased morbidity in children, increases the incidence of readmission, and may pose a significant challenge to subsequent surgical care over their lifetime. As the pathophysiology of peritoneal adhesion formation has been better understood, preventive strategies that minimize surgical trauma and contamination have been sought. Laparoscopy, over the past few decades, has become an increasingly utilized approach for many pediatric surgical problems and intuitively should have an advantage over open surgery in reducing adhesion formation. In this review, we examine the utility of laparoscopy in both the prevention and the treatment of intraabdominal adhesive disease in children.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1600 7th Ave South, JFL 300, Birmingham, Alabama 35233-1711.
authors.forename: Scott A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1600 7th Ave South, JFL 300, Birmingham, Alabama 35233-1711.
authors.forename: Elizabeth A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Beierle
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1600 7th Ave South, JFL 300, Birmingham, Alabama 35233-1711. Electronic address: mike.chen@childrensal.org.
authors.forename: Mike K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D010532:Peritoneal Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000601:surgery*; D000267:Tissue Adhesions / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000601:surgery
keywords: Adhesiolysis; Adhesions; Bowel obstruction; Laparoscopy; Pediatric; Prevention