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Laparoscopic appendectomy with hand-made loop

INTRODUCTION Acute appendicitis is the most common abdominal pathology requiring emergent surgical procedure. For treatment, laparoscopic surgery is commonly performed. For appendix stump closure different procedures are used. AIM Evaluation of the results of patients in whom the stump of the appendix was closed with a hand-made loop during laparoscopic appendectomy (LA). MATERIAL AND METHO...

Laparoscopic appendectomy: comparison with open appendectomy in 720 patients.

We conducted a review of laparoscopic appendectomies (LA) and open appendectomies (OA) over a 3-year period, including 720 patients (253 LA, 467 OA) who underwent appendectomy during the study period. Computer records were reviewed with respect to demographics, length of stay, operating room time, operating room cost, hospital cost, and morbidity. All patients were sent surveys to assess their ...

Machine-Made Puzzles and Hand-Made Puzzles

Originally puzzles were not for recreation, but serious questions you might be killed if you couldn’t solve them. But in modern times, puzzles had become a sort of recreation, decreasing the seriousness and religiousness gradually. Now, the ‘rule creators’ of puzzles began to attract notice. I, as a rule creator, published a book, Kyoto University Student, Higashida’s Puzzles. I’ll show several...

Laparoscopic Appendectomy

Two-port laparoscopic appendectomy assisted with needle grasper comparison with conventional laparoscopic appendectomy

PURPOSE The 2-port laparoscopic appendectomy technique (TLA) is between the conventional 3-port and single-port laparoscopic appendectomy surgeries. We compared postoperative pain and cosmetic results after TLA with conventional laparoscopic appendectomy (CLA) by a 3-port device. METHODS Patients undergoing TLA were matched with patients undergoing CLA between February 2015 and November 2015 ...