**4.2 Obese patients**

In the literature it is suggested that overweight patients seem to profit from laparoscopic appendectomy in terms of postoperative pain, postoperative recovery (Enochson et al., 2001), and septic wound complication rate (Stolzing et al., 2000, Corneille et al., 2007). In a more recent comparative study no significant differences in terms of complications were found between the two groups (Clarke et al., 2011). We did not perform a separate analysis on overweight patients.
