Technical approaches to single port/incision laparoscopic appendicectomy: a literature review

Laparoscopic Appendicectomy

A review of approaches to direct reverse osmosis membrane recycling: a technical, economic and environmental assessment

Background and Objective: Global market growth of reverse osmosis (RO) has led to an increase in annual disposal of membrane wastes. Therefore, evaluation of membrane waste management strategies is important to reduce their adverse environmental impacts. Due to the widespread domestic RO membrane market and their economic considerations, this study aims at investigation the direct recycling met...

Single Port Laparoscopic Appendicectomy versus Open Appendicectomy in Cases of Appendicitis

Background: Appendicectomy is the treatment for appendicitis. A recent development in Appendicectomy has been the introduction of less invasive single incision laparoscopic surgery. There are still many unanswered questions regarding efficiency of this new technique in terms of benefits, cosmetic outcome, complications, etc. To study and compare the outcome, effectiveness and safety of single p...

A Study of Open Versus Laparoscopic Appendicectomy

Background:Appendicectomy has been the treatment of choice for acute appendicitis. Since advent Laparoscopic appendicectomy (LA) has struggled to prove its superiority over the open technique. This is in contrast to laparoscopic cholecystectomy, which has promptly become the gold standard for gallstone disease. Open appendicectomy (OA) has withstood the test of time for more than a century. The...

Laparoscopic appendicectomy in children: A trainee's perspective.

INTRODUCTION The emergence of operative laparoscopy has brought a great demand for training surgical residents, but there are no clear guidelines regarding choice of procedure for training, proficiency assessment and accreditation. We aim to examine from a trainee's point of view, the safety and efficacy of laparoscopic appendicectomy (LA) as a laparoscopic training procedure. MATERIALS AND M...