INTRODUCTION Laparoscopic appendectomy is accepted as the gold standard technique for the treatment of acute appendicitis. Recently single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) was tried in the pediatric population and was shown to be both feasible and safe. We describe our early experience in teaching the SILS procedure for appendicitis in a large community hospital center surgical residency pr...

Objective Geriatric patients have more complicated appendicitis, which leads to higher morbidity and mortality rates. Sarcopenia has been shown a negative impact on undergoing surgery. This study aims reveal the predictive value of computerized tomography-assessed (CT-assessed) sarcopenia for appendicitis in geriatric patients. Methods One-hundred fifty-four patients’ with acute age, gender, co...

BACKGROUND Clinical diagnosis of acute appendicitis is based primarily on symptoms and physical findings. However, diagnosis of appendicitis is not always straightforward. The aim of this study was to demonstrate the diagnostic effectiveness of ultrasonography (US) in these cases in combination with white blood cell count (WBC) and C-reactive protein (CRP) level. METHODS Retrospective analysi...

BACKGROUND AND AIM In our study we aimed to compare laparoscopic intracorporeal knotting technique (base of the appendix was ligated with 20 cm of 2.0 silk) in patients with complicated acute appendicitis (CAA) and noncomplicated acute appendicitis. PATIENTS AND METHODS Ninety patients (female/male: 40/50, age ranging from 16 to 60 years, median age and interquartile range [IQR]: 25 [20; 32] ...

Acute appendicitis is the most common indication for surgery in patients admitted to hospital due to an acute abdomen. Although most are uncomplicated, about 20% of all acute appendicitis cases are complicated, leading to local or diffuse peritonitis. An urgent appendectomy is the recommended treatment for both complicated and uncomplicated appendicitis. The appendectomy, which has been the fir...

BACKGROUND We present our experience in the first 20 cases of complicated acute appendicitis in children, junior athletes, managed laparoscopically. MATERIALS AND METHOD We selected our first 20 patients, aged between 3 and 17 (median age 10), with complicated acute appendicitis treated laparoscopically. We analysed the intra and postoperative complications, operative time, length of hospital...

background: acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency of the childhood. its diagnosis is really challenging. a constellation of through history taking, physical examination, radiographic investigations, and laboratory analysis should be used to balance the risk of delayed operative intervention against the removal of a normal appendix. here a case with misdiagnosis of acute appen...