POLISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY, cilt.93, sa.2, ss.1-8, 2021 (ESCI)
Aim: Staging laparoscopy enables us to carry out palliative treatment, neo-adjuvant therapy for curative resection or direct curative resection and to make a decision on appropriate strategy leading to minimal morbidity by avoiding unnecessary laparotomies. In the present study, the importance of staging laparoscopy was retrospectively investigated by studying clinical and pathological data.