[Laparoscopy in abdominal injuries].
Application of laparoscopy in trauma was studied in Traumatological Hospital in Brno, within a more widely concipated project of grant IGA, Ministry of Health in Czech Republic. In the series of 28 patients there was detected neither a single complication, nor a reoperation nor any significant damage to the patient in connection with the use of the endoscopic method detected. Results of the research and author's observations act as a guide for use of more precise indication criteria and adequate selection of patients and for the proper evaluation of the method. Provided that basic principles and priorities of the urgencies management are kept, the application of this minimally invasive method in the management of patients with selected both the blunt and the penetrating abdominal trauma is justified, including associated extraabdominal injuries and polytrauma. It's diagnostic contribution exceeds the therapeutic one.