Single-Incision Laparoscopic Appendectomy with a Low-Cost Technique and Surgical-Glove Port: “How To Do It” with Comparison of the Outcomes and Costs in a Consecutive Single-Operator Series of 45 Cases - 03/03/16

Salomone Di Saverio, MD, FACS, FRCS ^{a, ⁎} , Matteo Mandrioli, MD ^a, Arianna Birindelli, MD ^a, Andrea Biscardi, MD ^a, Luca Di Donato, MD ^a, Carlos Augusto Gomes, MD, PhD, TCBC ^d, Alice Piccinini, MD ^a, Nereo Vettoretto, MD ^b, Ferdinando Agresta, MD ^c, Gregorio Tugnoli, MD, PhD ^a, Elio Jovine, MD, PhD ^a

^a Department of Emergency and General Surgery and Trauma Surgery Unit, C A Pizzardi Maggiore Hospital Trauma Center, Bologna, Italy 

^b Laparoscopic Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, M Mellini Hospital, Chiari, Italy 

^c Department of Surgery, Adria Hospital, Adria, Rovigo, Italy 

^d Department of Surgery, Hospital Therezinha de Jesus, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas e da Saúde Juiz de Fora (SUPREMA), Juiz de Fora, Brazil 

^∗Correspondence address: Salomone Di Saverio, MD, FACS, FRCS, Department of Emergency and General Surgery, C A Pizzardi Maggiore Hospital Trauma Center, AUSL Bologna, Largo B Nigrisoli 2, 40133 Bologna, Italy.Department of Emergency and General SurgeryC A Pizzardi Maggiore Hospital Trauma CenterAUSL BolognaLargo B Nigrisoli 2Bologna40133Italy