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Article: Having appendix removed by laparoscopy means faster recovery.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- January 14, 2004
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2004 JAN 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- When an appendix needs to be removed, patients who have minimally invasive surgery fare far better than those who have traditional operations, a review of several studies indicates.
Patients who had laparoscopic appendectomies had fewer complications, left the hospital faster and went back to work sooner, two Duke University researchers found after reviewing results of studies involving 43,000 patients.
The analysis is not definitive, the doctors said. "But we have seen definite advantages to laparoscopies," said Dr. Ricardo Pietrobon, who did the analysis with Dr. Ulrich Guller. Their findings are published in ...