Authors: Irfan Ahmed Kristjan S Asgeirsson Ian J Beckingham Dileep N Lobo
Publish Date: 2007/02/23
Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 165-168
Abstract
Patients undergoing emergency or elective laparoscopy at a university teaching hospital between April and September 2004 were studied prospectively The positions of the appendix and the caecum were determined after insertion of the laparoscope prior to any other procedure and the relative frequencies calculatedA total of 303 102 males and 201 females patients with a median age of 52 years range 18–93 years were studied An emergency appendicectomy was performed in 67 patients 49 had a diagnostic laparoscopy 179 underwent a laparoscopic cholecystectomy and eight had other procedures The caecum was at McBurney’s point in 245 809 patients pelvic in 45 149 and high lying in 13 43 The appendix was pelvic in 155 512 patients preileal in 9 30 paracaecal in 11 36 postileal in 67 221 and retrocaecal in 61 201 patients
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