Diagnostic Laparoscopy
What happens during the operation?
- While you are asleep under anaesthesia, your doctor will make a small cut (incision) under your belly button, as well as 1-3 other small cuts in your abdomen
- In order to expand your abdominal cavity to make it easier to see, carbon dioxide gas is inserted.
- Next, a hollow instrument, a trocar, is inserted and a laparoscope (a thin metal tube connected to a light source and camera) is placed inside of it.
- Your doctor will use the laparoscope to look at your internal organs and tissues.
- A sample of tissue (tissue biopsy) may be taken and sent to the laboratory for evaluation. Results may take several weeks.
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