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A scheme of the trocar placement for the procedure.
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The second site was in the left lower quadrant lateral to the rectus muscle, and the third site was located in the midline through the suprapubic area (Figure 1).
Minilaparoscopy instrumentation.
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A 2 mm fiberoptic scope (Microlap, Imagyn Medical Corp., Laguna Niguel, CA) was introduced and a second mini-site trocar was placed in the left lower quadrant after local anesthetic injection (Figure 2).
This photo shows the appendix under 2 mm laparoscopic view.
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The patient was found to have a retrocecal appendix which was inflamed demonstrating erythema, induration, and hypervascularity (Figure 3).