Review Article
Transvaginal Appendectomy: A Systematic Review
Table 4
Technical details of transvaginal appendectomies.
| | Author | Number | Vaginal trocar | Umbilical assistance | Working access | Flexible or rigid scope |
| | Bernhardt et al. [3] | 1 | No | No (pure) | Endoscope channel | Flexible | | Tabutsadze and Kipshidze [4] | 2 | NA | No (pure) | Endoscope channel | Flexible | | Shin et al. [5] | 1 | 15 mm | 5 mm (hybrid) | Endoscope channel | Flexible | | Zorron et al. [6] | 37 | 10 or 12 mm | No (pure) or 5 mm (hybrid) | NA | Both | | Pérez et al. [7] | 8 | 11 mm | 5 mm (hybrid) | Laparoscope channel | Rigid | | Noguera et al. [8] | 4 | 15 mm | 5 mm (hybrid) | Endoscope channel | Flexible | | Roberts et al. [10] | 18 | SILS port | No (pure) | TV SILS port | Rigid | | Albrecht et al. [9] | 30 | 12 mm | 5 mm (hybrid) | TV 5 mm port | Rigid | | Jacobsen et al. [12] | 3 | 15 mm | 5 mm (hybrid) | Through TV 15 mm trocar | Flexible | | Arezzo et al. [13] | 5 | 12 mm | 5 mm (hybrid) | NA | Flexible (3), rigid (2) | | Wada et al. [14] | 1 | 12 mm | 5 mm (hybrid) | 2.3 mm umbilical trocar | Rigid | | Mofid et al. [15] | 2 | 5 and 10 mm | 5 mm (hybrid) | TV 5 mm trocar | Rigid |
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TV: transvaginal.
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