Of the patients, 2.8% were operated under spinal anesthesia and 97.2%
under general anesthesia. 102 of the operations (71.3%) were open
(48.3% Mc Burney, 17.5% paramedian, 5.6% midline) and 42 (28.7%)
were laparoscopic.
Length of hospital stay was 3.13±2.56 days in group I, 3.34±2.01 days in
group IIa, and 6.59±5.93 days in group IIb, with a significant
difference between the groups (p<0.05) (Table1).
Postoperative complication rate was 35.6%. Complication rates in the
groups were 2.09% in group I, 16.7% in group IIa, and 16.7% in group
IIb, with significant differences (p<0.05) (Table 1). No
mortality was observed.