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INTRODUCTION: To present the data of patients who underwent laparoscopic appendectomy.METHODS: Between January 1997 and December 2007, medical records of the patients who underwent laparoscopic appendectomy in our emergency unit, were retrospectively evaluated. Operative data, complications and follow-up results were assessed.RESULTS: Nine hundred fifty patients, with a mean age of 28 (10-87) years underwent laparoscopic appendectomy. The preperative diagnoses were acute appendicitis and acute abdomen in 84% and 16% of the patients, respectively. Mean operation time was 42 (20-150) minutes. Operative data revealed phlegmonous (75%), gangrenous (13%) and perforated (7%) appendicitis. Appendix was macroscopically normal in 5% of the cases. Patients were operated by residents (59%) and staff surgeons (41%). Conversion rate was 7%. Mean postoperative hospital stay was 1.5 (1-10) days. Complication rate was 5% and there was no mortality.DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Laparoscopic appendectomy is a safe and effective method, which is associated with shorter hospital stay and less surgical wound infection. Whole abdominal cavity can be explored easily, with the help of diagnostic laparoscopy in suspected patients.

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