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Harms of pelvic examination include unnecessary laparoscopies or laparotomies, fear, anxiety, embarrassment, pain, and discomfort.

From Forbes • Jul. 3, 2014

This young man had already distinguished himself in the performance of some difficult hospital laparotomies, and he was at that sanguine age when ambition looks through the spectacles of experiment.

From The Ape, the Idiot & Other People by Morrow, W. C.

She's had three or four laparotomies and every time she comes back to me with a longer story and a worse one.

From The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife by Firebaugh, Ellen M.