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A Patient's Guide to Adhesions & Related Pain (part 12)

References for the Patient's Guide

Daniell JF. Laparoscopic enterolysis for chronic abdominal pain. J Gyn Surg 1989;5:61-6.

Ellis H. The clinical significance of adhesions: focus on intestinal obstruction. Eur J Surg Suppl 1997;5-9.

Fox Ray NF, Larsen JW, Stillman RJ, Jacobs RJ. Economic impact of hospitalizations for lower abdominal adhesiolysis in the United States in 1988. Surg Gynecol Obstet 1993;176

Freys SM, Fuchs KH, Heimbucher J, Thiede A. Laparoscopic adhesiolysis. Surg Endosc 1994;8:1202-7.

Graves EJ. National Hospital Discharge Survey: Annual Summary, 1993. 1995(Vital Health Stat; vol. 13(121)).

HCIA, Inc. National Inpatient Profile, 1994.

Howard F. The role of laparoscopy in chronic pelvic pain: promise and pitfalls. Obstet Gynecol Surv 1993;48:357-87.

Kresch AJ, Seifer DB, Sachs LB, Barrese I. Laparoscopy in 100 women with chronic pelvic pain. Obstet Gynecol 1984;64:672-4.

Mathias SD, Kuppermann M, Liberman RF, Lipschutz RC, Steege JF .  Chronic pelvic pain: prevalence, health-related quality of life, and economic correlates. Obstet Gynecol 1996;87:321-7 .

Menzies D, Ellis H. Intestinal obstruction from adhesions--how big is the problem?. Ann R Coll Surg Engl 1990;72:60-3.

Menzies D. Postoperative adhesions: their treatment and relevance in clinical practiceAnn Rev R Coll Surg Eng 1993;75:147-153.

Mueller MD, Tschudi J, Herrmann U, Klaiber C. An evaluation of laparoscopic adhesiolysis in patients with chronic abdominal pain. Surg Endosc 1995;9:802-4.

Paul CP. Cited in OBGYN.net - Special Pelvic Pain Symposium Report April 3-4, 1998

Peters AAW, Trimbos-Kemper GCM, Admiraal C, Trimbos JB, Hermans J. A randomized clinical trial on the benefit of adhesiolysis in patients with intraperitoneal adhesions and chronic pelvic pain. Br J Obstet Gynaecol 1992;99:59-62.

Steege JF, Stout AL. Resolution of chronic pelvic pain after laparoscopic lysis of adhesions. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1991;165:278-81; discussion 281-3.

Weibel MA, Majno G. Peritoneal adhesions and their relation to abdominal surgery. A postmortem study. Am J Surg 1973;126:345-53.

Wiseman DM. Polymers for the prevention of surgical adhesions. In: Domb AJ, Editor. Polymeric site-specific pharmacotherapy. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1994: 369-421.

 

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