[Laparoscopic appendectomy at the Department of Surgery in Jablonec nad Nisou]

The paper deals with experience regarding laparoscopic appendectomy at the Department of Surgery in Jablonec nad Nisou. Between May, 1992 and Jan. 1, 1994 the authors performed 82 operations. They are listed in a table according to pathological findings and the number of complications according to a described classification. In the author's opinion the advantage of the new method is, as compared with the classical open one, a shorter time of hospitalization and a substantially shorter period of convalescence.