Prospective nonrandomized study of conventional versus laparoscopic appendectomy
| Autor: | Arne Bakka, Arne R. Rosseland, Ola Reiertsen, Stig Larsen, E. Trondsen, Ove K. Andersen |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Postoperative Complications medicine Appendectomy Humans Prospective Studies Child Intraoperative Complications Prospective cohort study Laparoscopy Aged media_common medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Convalescence General surgery Middle Aged Vascular surgery Appendicitis medicine.disease Appendix Surgery Treatment Outcome medicine.anatomical_structure Cardiothoracic surgery Child Preschool Female business Abdominal surgery |
| Zdroj: | World Journal of Surgery. 18:411-415 |
| ISSN: | 1432-2323 0364-2313 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf00316823 |
| Popis: | With the introduction of laparsocopic appendectomy a prospective study was started. Patients with suspected appendicitis were selected for conventional appendectomy or laparoscopy according to the preference of the surgeon on call. During a 1-year period 233 patients were included, of whom 97 underwent conventional appendectomy and 136 laparoscopy. Among the patients selected to lasparoscopy, laparoscopic appendectomy was carried out in 72 cases, conventional appendectomy in 32, and only diagnostic laparoscopy in the remaining 32. Removal of a normal appendix was significantly more common in the group of patients directly selected for conventional appendectomy compared to laparoscopy (p |
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