Acute appendicitis is the one of the most common conditions requiring surgical intervention, and an appendiceal abscess or phlegmon has an incidence rate of about 3.8% among patients with a perforated appendicitis [1]. An immediate appendectomy for the treatment of a periappendiceal abscess (PAA) or phlegmon is technically demanding with adhesive loops of the bowel and a distorted anatomy, and ...

INTRODUCTION Laparoscopic appendectomy is probably the technique of choice in acute appendicitis. Single port laparoscopic surgery (SILS) has been proposed as an alternative technique. The objective of this study is to compare the safety and efficacy of SILS against conventional laparoscopic appendectomy (LA). MATERIAL AND METHODS From January 2011 to September 2012, 120 patients with acute a...

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE The laparoscopic treatment of pediatric appendicitis remains controversial, particularly in complicated cases (gangrene and perforation). This study evaluates outcomes of open (OA) and laparoscopic appendectomy (LA). METHODS The 391 cases of pediatric appendectomy performed between January 1998 and January 2001 were reviewed for age, sex, weight, type and length of interven...

PURPOSE The diagnosis-related group (DRG) system has been adapted to reduce overall medical costs by grouping and classifying relatively homogenous patients based on similar resource consumption patterns in the treatment. However, despite its wide range of disease manifestation from early inflammation to severe peritonitis, acute appendicitis is included in the DRG system. Responding to a need ...

Purpose: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records to estimate the feasibility and surgical outcome of laparoscopic herniorrhaphies in patients with previous lower abdominal surgery. Methods: Between December 2000 and December 2008, a total of 1,101 cases of laparoscopic herniorrhaphies were performed in 974 patients, among them 47 cases (4.27%) of laparoscopic herniorrhaphy in 40 patient...

Introduction: The value of laparoscopy in appendicitis is not established. Our aim was to compare the efficacy and benefits of laparoscopic versus open appendectomy in a prospective randomized controlled trial. Objective: To compare the efficacy of laparoscopic appendectomy and open appendectomy in the treatment of acute appendicitis in terms of post operative wound infection. MATERIAL AND METH...

Introduction: Acute appendicitis is the most common general surgical emergency. Appendicectomy treatment of choice for acute and commonly performed emergency abdominal operation. Open appendectomy found safe effective operation with low morbidity but to be associated post operative pain, wound infection complications like intestinal obstruction which may delay recovery. Laparoscopic emerged as ...