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Abstract
The present study was carried out to evaluate laparoscopy as a diagnostic lool in of” acute abdomen.
Acute abdominal pan] can present a diagnostic dilemma. It accounts for 13-40% of all emergency surgical admission. Clinical examination often fails to yield a diagnosis, particularly when tiie symptoms and signs are compounded by extremes of age or obesity. 1 his problem is more common in but noi exclusive to female patients, Blood investigations ’” most scenarios; simply indicate ihc presence of an inflammatory process. Radiology may suggest a diagnosis, but both radiography and ultrasound have a false-negative rate,
Thh study included fifty patients from who a complete history was Taken; a thorough clinical examination was carried out. All the patients underwent routine preoperative warkup, to set their Illness for general anesthesia.
In this study, diagnostic laparoscopy was done for 50 patients and was successful in 49 patient* %2