Pelvic Surgery

I. Postsurgical Peritoneal Repair.- 1. Cellular Events in Peritoneal Repair: A Review.- 2. Biochemical Messengers in Postsurgical Repair and Adhesion Formation.- 3. Comparative Tissue Repair.- 4. Response of Fetal Tissue to Wounding.- 5. Postsurgical Intraperitoneal Tissue Repair: Implication of TGF-?.- II. Developing Technology for Adhesion Prevention.- 6. Animal Adhesion Models: Design, Variables, and Relevance.- 7. Experimental Prevention of Peritoneal Adhesions in General Surgery.- 8. Tissue Protective Solutions and Films for Adhesion Prevention.- 9. Peritoneal Fibrinolysis and Adhesion Formation.- 10. Peritoneal Conditioning: The Role of the Supply of Natural Membrane Lipids.- III. Outcome Measures.- 11. Clinical Trial Design for Evaluation of Treatments Purported to Prevent Postsurgical Adhesions.- 12. Adhesions and Infertility.- 13. Laparoscopic Ovarian Surgery and Adhesions.- 14. Infertility and Ectopic Pregnancy.- 15. Clinical Significance of Adhesions in Patients with Chronic Pelvic Pain.- 16. Bowel Obstruction Related to Prior Gynecologic Surgery.- IV. Adjuvants for Clinical Use.- 17. Prognostic Factors of Distal Tubal Occlusion.- 18. Reconstruction of the Ovary with Endometrioma: A Problem of Adhesions.- 19. Use of Adhesion Prevention Barriers in Pelvic Reconstructive and Gynecologic Surgery.- 20. Prevention of Postoperative Adhesions on the Human Oviduct and of Sactosalpinges.- 21. Laparoscopic Myomectomy, Laparoscopy-Assisted Myomectomy, and Postmyomectomy Adhesions.- 22. Adhesion Prevention: The Role of Fibrin Glue.- 23. Clinical Use of Oxidized Regenerated Cellulose for the Prevention of Adhesion Formation After Laparoscopic Myomectomy.- Advances in Gynecologic Surgery (Abstracts).- 1. Adhesion Formation and Changes in Local Fibrinolytic Activity (LFA) of the Uterine Horn Tissue (UHF) After Various Types of Operations.- 2. Gyaluronidase Electrophoresis Effect on Postoperative Adhesions Formations.- 3. Prevention of Postsurgical Adhesion Formation with Polyactive, A Degradable Barrier.- 4. An Evaluation of Operator Variability in a Rat Cecal Abrasion Model for the Formation of Abdominal Models.- 5. The Evaluation of an Injectable Bioresorbable Gel on Adhesion Reduction in Two Animal Models.- 6. Seprafilm (HAL-F) Reduces Postoperative Adhesions: Initial Results of a Multicenter Gynecologic Clinical Study.- 7. Comparative Post Operative Adhesion Formation Following Laparoscopie Cholecystectomy in the Porcine Model Using Electrosurgery, Laser, and Ultrasonically Activated Scalpel.- 8. Pelvic Inflammatory Pseudotumor with Central Infectious Abscess: A Case Report.- 9. Plasminogen-Activator Inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) Remains Elevated After Surgery and Is Not Correlated with Postoperative Adhesion Score.- 10. Mannan Activation of Peritoneal Macrophages: A Method of Identifying a Cell Population Associated with Adhesions Due to Infection.- 11. Pollutants Resulting from Intraabdominal Tissue Combustion.- 12. Tissue Combustion Smoke/Plume Absorption via the Peritoneum at Laparoscopy.- 13. Vesicovaginal Fistular Repair: A New Technique to Avoid Recurrence.- 14. Review of Randomized Studies of Pharmacologic Adjuvant Used During Infertility Surgery to Prevent Postoperative Adhesion Formation.- 15. Comments on the Third International Congress on Pelvic Surgery and Adhesion Prevention: Summary.