[Laparoscopy-assisted appendectomy in children]

During a 13-month period (March 1, 1995 March 31, 1996) the authors performed in 70 children a laparoscopically assisted appendectomy. 68 children were operated on account of chronic appendicitis, two on account of acute appendicitis. During the postoperative period early, not very serious, postoperative complications were recorded in 7 children. One girl had on the second day after operation fever and severe abdominal pain, four children developed on the 5th-7th day after surgery abdominal pain, associated in three instances with fever and in two instances with the pathological finding of pericoecal fluid. The complaints receded within 1-2 days in all five patients after conservative treatment. In another two children the wound healed per secundam intentionem. No late complications were recorded.