Laparoscopy: What Affects The Test
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What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the surgery or why the results may not be helpful include:
- If you are obese, which may make the laparoscopy harder to do.
- If you have scar tissue from another surgery or an injury.
- If a tissue sample is taken for a biopsy, but the results are not clear about what the problem is.
| Last updated: | July 15, 2008 |
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| Author: | Sandy Jocoy, RN |
| Reviewed By: | Joy Melnikow, MD, MPH - Family Medicine, Deborah A. Penava, BA, MD, FRCSC, MPH - Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Editors: | Kathleen M. Ariss, MS, Tracy Landauer |
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