Experimental model of the formation of pelvic adhesions by videolaparoscopic in female rabbits

• Autor(a) principal: Balbinotto,Rosi Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Trindade,Manoel Roberto Maciel, Muller,Ana Lucia Letti, Nunes,André Gorgen, Silva,Rodrigo Da, Meyer,Fabíola Schons, Cerski,Carlos Thadeu Schmidt
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-86502010000100009
• topic: Adhesions; Laparoscopy; Surgery; Rabbits

PURPOSE: 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. CONCLUSION: The method used presents a high frequency of intra-abdominal adhesion formation.