Advances in laparoscopy for acute care surgery and trauma

Figure 2 Single-incision laparoscopic surgery to multiport laparoscopic conversion. Right colectomy for intended appendectomy: functional and aesthetic outcome. The procedure began as an intended single-incision laparoscopic surgery appendectomy. After discovering a wide perforation of the gangrenous cecum, the procedure was converted to a multiport laparoscopic right colectomy. With an umbelical port for the camera, two further trocars were inserted: a 5 mm trocar in the left iliac fossa and a 12 mm trocar in the left flank as an opertive port and for the insertion of the endostapler. Provided by personal courtesy of Dr. S. Di Saverio, MD, FACS, FRCS.