INTRODUCTION Abdominal pain during cancer chemotherapy may be caused by medical or surgical conditions. A retrospective review of 5 children with cancer who had appendicitis while receiving chemotherapy was performed. CASE DESCRIPTIONS Three had acute lymphoblastic leukemia,and 1 each had T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma and rhabdomyosarcoma. Two of the patients had a Pediatric Appendectomy Scor...

Figure 2 Clinical photograph demonstrating the long distal drain still protruding after closure of the arthrotomy (Fig 1). Close the arthrotomy from proximal to distal, leaving the distal end protruding (Fig 2). As you reach the end of the wound where the drain exits the arthrotomy, withdraw the drain to length. As the drain withdraws easily, you can be sure that it has not been sutured into th...

AMA Erginel B, Karadeniz MS, Yuksel S, et al. Can serum soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor be an effective biomarker in comparing the inflammatory response between laparoscopic and open appendectomy?. Videosurgery Other Miniinvasive Techniques. 2023;18(2):351-357. doi:10.5114/wiitm.2023.128681. APA Erginel, B., Karadeniz, M. S., Yuksel, Ciftci, H. Izgi, D., & Ersavas, C. (2023). T...

BACKGROUND The appendix may be an immune modulator of the gut, and its absence may lead to an increase in gastrointestinal illnesses. If this is true, we may expect patients needing endoscopy to have a higher prevalence of previous appendectomy. METHODS We did a case-control study at the University of Oklahoma Hospital for 13 months. Subjects having endoscopic evaluation at the University of ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the necessity of routine preoperative type and screen testing before a cholecystectomy, hernia repair, or appendectomy based on the risk of transfusion in our department. METHOD We conducted a retrospective analysis of the surgical database of patients who underwent a cholecystectomy, a hernia repair, or an appendectomy at Maimonides Medical Center over a 2-year period and...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Laparoscopic appendectomy remains one of the most common emergency general surgical procedures in the United States. In an era of increasing focus on costs in medical care, we sought to evaluate the use of polymeric clips to secure the appendiceal base during laparoscopic appendectomy. METHODS We performed a prospective cohort study of patients undergoing laparoscopi...

We report a very rare case of endometrioid adenocarcinoma arising from abdominal wall endometriosis in the appendectomy scar. A 47-year-old woman visited the surgical department, since she had a gradually growing and painful tumor both in an appendectomy scar and at an umbilical site. She underwent appendectomy at age 18 years, and noticed the tumor at age 22 years. Partial tumor resection was ...

PURPOSE Laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) for acute appendicitis has several advantages over open appendectomy (OA). In cases of complicated appendicitis, LA is converted to OA at a constant rate, though converting appendectomy (CA) has several disadvantages. We retrospectively determined preoperative risk factors for failure of LA and subsequent conversion to OA. METHODS Consecutive cases of pr...

background and objective: in the present study, the diagnostic agreement between surgical and pathological findings of appendicitis in children was tested. the aim was to assess the association between patient body mass index (bmi) and this diagnostic agreement. methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out on 121 consecutive children aged less than 15 years suspected to acute appendiciti...

INTRODUCTION Single-incision pediatric endosurgery (SIPES) is gaining popularity and has been reported to be safe in acute (non-perforated) and perforated appendicitis. The feasibility of SIPES appendectomy in obese children is uncertain. MATERIALS AND METHODS After IRB approval, data were collected from a prospectively maintained SIPES appendectomy database for cases performed between April ...