[Laparoscopic surgery of gastric diverticula with secondary adhesiolysis]

The authors present the case-history of a rare cause of gastric diverticulum. On account of a very painful symptomatology and X-ray evidence of a diverticulum the authors decided on laparoscopic excision of the diverticulum. The resection was made using a Endo GIA II stapler. The gradual, one-year development of adhesions and a new different algic symptomatology which impeded the subject's occupational activities led the authors to make another laparoscopic operation. After releasing the adhesion between the stomach and the collateral peritoneum the condition improved completely. The patient is now 16 months after re-operation completely free of complaints and performs his physically pretentious work and ingests food without dyspeptic phenomena.