TY - BOOK AU - Amir Mounir Henry AU - George Abdelfady Nashed , AU - Mustafa Abdelhameed Soliman , AU - Nader Makram Milad , TI - Role of laparoscopy in diagnosis and management of penetrating abdominal trauma / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Amir Mounir Henry , KW - Diagnostic laparoscopy KW - Penetrating abdominal trauma KW - Therapeutic laparoscopy N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of General Surgery; Issued also as CD N2 - Background : Exploratory laparotomy is essential care if abdominal trauma . However negative laparotomy has a significant morbidity rate . Various adjunct methods (FAST , CT , LWE , DPL) help to identify patients who are unlikely to benefit from laparotomy . The initial reason for incorporating laparoscopy into trauma was actually to diagnose injury and reduce unnecessary UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -