[Clinical assessment of perioperative course of patients undergoing laparoscopic nephrectomy or adrenalectomy without perioperative bowel management].

Thirty-one patients underwent laparoscopic radical nephrectomy and 27 patients underwent laparoscopic adrenalectomy from January, 2005 to September, 2009 by a single surgeon authorized by the Japanese Society of Endourology and ESWL. Six patients (radical nephrectomy in 3, adrenalectomy in 3) received perioperative and 52 patients (radical nephrectomy in 28, adrenalectomy in 24) did not. The time of pneumoperitoneum, amount of blood loss, postoperative body temperature and complications revealed no obvious problems in the cases without bowel management. Perioperative bowel management is commonly applied to the patients, but without clinical evidence. Based on the present study, we concluded that bowel management may be safely omitted for laparoscopic redical nephrectomy and adrenalectomy and it may save medical cost including labor cost.