ClinicalTrials.Veeva

Menu

New Technique For Laparoscopic Appendicectomy

I

Israel De Alba Cruz

Status

Completed

Conditions

Appendicitis Acute

Treatments

Procedure: APPENDICECTOMY

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

Introduction: Appendectomy is one of the most frequent emergency surgical procedures, currently with a preference for laparoscopic management worldwide. Objective: To report a new laparoscopic appendectomy technique and its results. Material and methods: study of patients with a diagnosis of appendicitis who are managed laparoscopically. In a total 1063 patients, 148 were operated on with the Zaragoza technique during the period from January 2002 to December 2018. The technique consists of making a window in the appendicular base between the meso and the appendicular wall, two prolene or silk sutures are placed, and the cecal appendix is cut between the two sutures, finally the mesoappendix is sectioned with a harmonic scalpel or bipolar clamp.

Full description

this is a retrospective study based on files

Enrollment

148 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • patients with a diagnosis of appendicitis who are managed laparoscopically.

Exclusion criteria

  • Less than 18 year old

Trial contacts and locations

0

Loading...

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

Clinical trials

Find clinical trialsTrials by location
© Copyright 2026 Veeva Systems