The treatment: After giving the patient antibiotics, the doctors performed a type of abdominal surgery called a laparotomy to remove the foreign object. It turned out to be a fish bone.

Although additional diagnostic tests such as hematology or ... we did not consider them as useful as ultrasound and exploratory laparotomy. In retrospect, we may have seen only a reverse ...

A recent retrospective analysis by Low and colleagues compared the use of laparotomy, MRI, and serum cancer antigen-125 (CA-125) levels for the detection of residual tumor in women treated for ...