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Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 60-64 , January 2007

“Awake” laparoscopy for the evaluation of equivocal penetrating abdominal wounds

Jordan A. Weinberg
- Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Louis J. Magnotti
- Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Centre, 956 Court Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163, United States
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 901 448 3418; fax: +1 901 448 7306.
Norma M. Edwards
- Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Centre, 956 Court Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163, United States
Jeffrey A. Claridge
- Department of Surgery, Metrohealth Mecial Centre, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Gayle Minard
- Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Centre, 956 Court Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163, United States
Timothy C. Fabian
- Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Centre, 956 Court Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163, United States
Martin A. Croce
- Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Centre, 956 Court Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163, United States

,Accepted 30 August 2006.

Clinical pathway for the evaluation of anterior abdominal stab and tangential gunshot wounds.

Clinical pathway for the evaluation of anterior abdominal stab and tangential gunshot wounds.
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Access to the peritoneal cavity is obtained under direct vision with an Endopath bladeless 5mm trocar (Ethicon, NJ, USA) and a zero degree 5mm endoscope (Stryker, MI, USA) as assembled above.

Access to the peritoneal cavity is obtained under direct vision with an Endopath bladeless 5mm trocar (Ethicon, NJ, USA) and a zero degree 5mm endoscope (Stryker, MI, USA) as assembled above.
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