Laparoscopy also known as the key-hole surgery. It is a surgical procedure which uses special surgical instrument called laparoscope, which is like a thin telescope with light source, to look inside the abdomen. It can be passed through a small incision made near the umbilicus. It is considered to be the gold standard as it both diagnostic and therapeutic.
DIAGNOSTIC INDICATIONS:
⦁ It provides panoramic and magnified view of the pelvic and abdominal organs
⦁ Visualisation of Tubal patency
⦁ Detects pelvic diseases
THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS
⦁ Laparoscopic myomectomy
⦁ Laparoscopic tubal microsurgeries (neo salphingotomy, fimbrioplasty)
⦁ Laparoscopic adhesiolysis
⦁ Management of hydrosalphinx
⦁ Endometriosis- excision, electro- coagulation, Laser vapourisation.
⦁ Lap ovarian drilling
⦁ Lap endometriotic cyst excision.