ABSTRACT
Intestinal injury is a rare but potentially fatal complication of abdominal laparoscopy. Review of large multi-institutional studies of urologic laparoscopy over the last decade reveals an overall complication rate from 4.4% to 16%, a conversion rate of 0.8% to 5%, and a mortality rate up to 0.9% (1-5). The combined incidence of reported bowel injury from the general surgical, gynecologic, and urologic literature is 1.3 per 1000 cases (6).
