TULAA: A Minimally Invasive Appendicectomy Technique for the Paediatric Patient

Table 4

Comparison of outcomes with meta-analysis data of open versus laparoscopic appendicectomy, data published by Aziz et al. [30].

	⁢Aziz et al. [30]		⁢Range of mean/median or percentage value reported in the literature for TULAEA
	Open appendicectomy	Laparoscopic appendicectomy	Including all studies	Including only studies with >100 patients
Operating time	83 to 46 minutes (μ)	73 to 31 minutes (μ)	15–58.6 minutes (M/μ)	15–58.6 minutes (M/μ)
Hospital stay	2.4 to 6.5 days (μ)	1.70 to 7 days (μ)	2–7.9 days (M/μ)	2–7.9 days (M/μ)
Conversion rate	N/A	0 to 25.9%	0–15%	0–15%
Surgical wound infection	5%	1.5%	0–13.7%	0–6.3%
Organ space infection	3.4%	3.8%	0–3.8%	0–3.8%

M: median, μ: mean, M/μ: range of median or mean values reported in the literature, and N/A: not applicable.