Hackensack Meridian Children's Health Surgeon Performs K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital's First Single-Incision Laparoscopic Appendectomy

Newswise — Hackensack Meridian Children's Health pediatric general surgeon Margaret M. McGuire, M.D, FACS,FAAP. , was the first surgeon at K. Hovna...

March 2, 2023
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Newswise — Hackensack Meridian Children's Health pediatric general surgeon Margaret M. McGuire, M.D, FACS,FAAP. , was the first surgeon at K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital at Jersey Shore University Medical Center to perform an emergency appendectomy using single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) technology.  The procedure to remove the appendix — which is a thin pouch attached to the large intestine in the lower-right part of the abdomen — was performed using Olympus TriPort technology. SILS appendectomy is a technically challenging procedure performed through a single small incision.