[Laparoscopy in clinical practice. I. Indications]

In the paper the authors analyzed indications to 1527 laparoscopies. The most frequent indications were: sterility (72.2%) and suspicions of adnexal tumours or extrauterine gravidity (14.1%). In 173 diagnostically difficult cases laparotomy was avoided. In these cases laparoscopy allowed to exclude the pelvic pathology or to quality to laparoscopic operation of ovarian cysts and intact tubal pregnancy. Diagnostic and operative laparoscopy give the possibility of quick diagnosis in diagnostically difficult cases and enables avoidance of laparotomy in many cases.