Introduction: Several indications of cecal wedge resection can be found in the literature, but the most common ones are acute appendicitis, appendiceal mucocele and selected cecal polyps.
Purpose: We summarize the indications, review the results of laparoscopic cecal wedge resections carried out in our department from 01.01.2010 till 31.12.2016. A case report is presented when cecal resection was carried out for a cecal polyp.
Patients: Between 01.01.2010 and 31.12.2016, 56 patients underwent a laparoscopic cecal wedge resection. The mean age was 42 years (14-83), 28 males and 28 females. In 46 cases, the indication was complicated acute appendicitis, in 6 cases appendiceal mucocele, in the case of four patients endoscopically unresectable benign cecal polyps.
Results: The average operating time was 65 minutes. For the procedure we used two 10 mm and one 5 mm port, the resection was performed by using 45 or 60 mm laparoscopic stapler. In 57.1% of the reviewed cases, abdominal drainage was applied. Conversion was necessary in the case of 3 patients (5.4%), once due to bleeding, twice due to technical problems. Surgical complications occured in 4 patients (7.1%), all of them from the complicated appendicitis group: one of grade I by Clavien-Dindo, 3 of grade III. The reoperation rate was 5.4% (3 patients): reoperation was accounted for an abdominal wall phlegmon, a pericecal abscess, and once the suspicion of abdominal abscess which was not verified. Perioperative death did not occur.
Keywords: cecal wedge resection; coecumkúp-reszekció; laparoscopic; laparoszkópos.