A report on 23 early post-operative laparoscopies performed on the 8th day.

The authors have attempted to evaluate the therapeutic usefulness of post-operative adhesiolysis in 23 cases of early 8th. day laparoscopies. 13 cases showed a favorable appearance and no action was taken - of these 8 resulted in pregnancies. In 2 cases adhesions formed in the following months. In 10 cases adhesiolysis was performed; in 5 of these adhesions reformed, in 3 there were ectopic pregnancies, in 2 intra-uterine pregnancies where there were unilateral adhesions. The Authors conclude that the intervention had no therapeutic value in this series, but cannot deny its prognostic value.