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What is a laparotomy?

What is a laparotomy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (surgery) The surgical procedure for making an incision in the abdominal wall to gain access into the abdominal cavity. Performed either as exploratory surgery, or as the first step in an abdominal operation.
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Acute appendicitis is the commonest extrauterine indication for laparotomy in pregnancy, and it can occur in any trimester.
Subsequently, the patient underwent emergency laparotomy with partial gastrectomy.
The patient underwent an exploratory laparotomy, resection of the gastric mass, pyloroplasty, truncal vagotomy, and cyst duodenostomy.
Nine months after the initial diagnosis, the patient had a second exploratory laparotomy via a bilateral subcostal incision.
The laparotomy was abbreviated because the patient was quite unstable intraoperatively.
Subsequently, an exploratory abdominal laparotomy was performed to remove the masses.

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