Hernia appendicitis is a rare occurrence often described in association with groin hernias. We present a rare case of hernia appendicitis through a Pfannenstiel incision. Laparoscopy was performed with the intention to perform an appendectomy. An acutely inflamed appendix was visualized with the tip incarcerated into a 2 cm segment of the right most portion of a previous Pfannenstiel incision. ...

BACKGROUND Single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) is an emerging technique that has been used as an approach for appendectomy, cholecystectomy, and splenectomy. We describe the technique of single incision laparoscopic splenectomy for hypersplenism in a 5-year-old boy with spherocytosis. CASE REPORT The patient required blood transfusions for anemia secondary to hypersplenism. His spleen...

PURPOSE Recently many cases of appendectomy have been conducted by single-incision laparoscopic technique. The aim of this study is to figure out the benefits of transumbilical single-port laparoscopic appendectomy (TULA) compared with conventional three-port laparoscopic appendectomy (CTLA). METHODS From 2010 to 2012, 89 patients who were diagnosed as acute appendicitis and then underwent la...

instrument with a small-diameter (less than 3 mm), a Mediflex disposable suture grasper closure device, as a percutaneous organholding device. The authors compared clinical outcomes between a single-port laparoscopic appendectomy (SPA) using a glove port with a percutaneous organ-holding device (group 1) and a SPA using a commercially-available multichannel single port (group 2). In group 1, a ...