Appendix operation through the mouth

Woww, this is really an interesting news! The just caught my attention and pushed me to read the entire article. According to Yahoo News, American Surgeons performed an appendix operation through the mouth of the patient. No laceration at all in the stomach or belly area. The said operation is the first of its kind and it ensured the patient, who was acutely ill with appendicitis, of an invisible scar.

The patient, Mr. Scholtz, said that he recovered faster and that he was already eating pizza and doing sit-ups 3 days after the operation. And he was already discharged from hospital after 17 hours and went back to work a day later. It's indeed a very fast recovery!

According to the news, "Surgeons at the University of California San Diego Medical Centre threaded miniaturised instruments attached to long control wires down the throat of the former US marine. Once they had emptied his stomach of its contents they made a small incision in the lining to reach inside the body cavity. The inflamed appendix was cut away, bagged up, pulled back into the stomach and out of Mr Scholz's mouth".

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