[Laparoscopic operations in pediatric surgery].

From January 2003 to January 2004, laparoscopy was performed in 100 cases, aged from 10 months to 19 years. Diagnostic laparoscopy was applied in 39 patients, most often in nonpalpable testes (29), ovarian cysts (4), abdominal trauma (1), abdominal cysts (2) and intersex states (3). Ninety patients underwent operative laparoscopy: appendectomy (44), orchiopexy (2), orchiectomy (1), herniorrhaphy (1), varicocelectomy (8), adnexectomy (2), cholecystectomy (8), Fowler-Stephens procedure (1), abdominal cysts (2), ovarian cystectomy (6), subdiaphragmatic abscess (1), adhesiotomy (11), liver cysts (2) and splenectomy (1). Diagnostic laparoscopy has proved to be more reliable and less invasive method in comparison to previously used methods. Our conclusion is that operative laparoscopy has many advantages compared with some of the classical surgical procedures.