%0 Journal Article
%T Large bowel injury during total laparoscopic hysterectomy
%A Sabharwal Malvika
%J Journal of Gynecological Endoscopy and Surgery
%D 2009
%I 
%X Large bowel injuries are unfortunate complications of laparoscopic surgery, with an incidence of 0.62 to 1.6 per 1000 laparoscopies. One-third of these injuries can be diagnosed intraoperatively, with the rest going unnoticed and revealed later. Rectal injury, a very rare complication, may be caused during pelvic dissection of dense adhesions. Injury at the rectosigmoid junction due to traction with a rectal probe is extremely rare and highly underreported. We report a case of rectal injury during total laparoscopic hysterectomy in a case with dense pelvic adhesions.
%K Adhesiolysis
%K bowel injury
%K rectal probe
%K rectosigmoid
%U http://www.gynecendoscopy.org/article.asp?issn=0974-1216;year=2009;volume=1;issue=1;spage=57;epage=58;aulast=Sabharwal