Laparoscopic repair of perforated duodenal ulcer

Laparoscopic closure of an acutely perforated duodenal ulcer is an alternative procedure to open surgery. With proper training and experience this procedure might overtake laparotomy and simple closure thereby reducing the post operative morbidity in terms of reduced wound pain, short hospital stay, likely reduced wound sepsis and hernia occurrence and post operative chest complications. We report a 63-year old man with acute perforation of duodenal ulcer who were submitted to an emergency laparoscopic repair, first time done on the Department of Surgery, Univerisity Clinical Center of Tuzla.