|
| Author and year | Study type | Number of patients | Age (years) | Objective | Duration of complaint before surgery (months)
Median (range) | Treatment applied before surgery | Surgery technique | Effect | Follow-up (months) | Second surgery | Effect Second surgery |
|
| Armstrong 2018 | Retrospective case series | 26 | 15 (13.8–17.3) | To evaluate the safety and efficacy of neurectomy for ACNES in children | 15 (8–29) | Oral medication | Anterior neurectomy | 15 (58%) pain-free | 26 (15–36) | 4 | 1 (25%) pain-free |
| TAP block with local anesthetic + steroid | 11 (42%) recurrent pain |
|
| Bairdain 2015 | Retrospective case series | 9 | 14 (10–19) | To report on an entity known as anterior cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome (ACNES) and its relevance to chronic abdominal pain encountered in children | 10 (0.5–60) | TAP block with local anesthetic and/or steroid (1–5) | | 9 (1 patient still on narcotics) | 9 (1–30) | | |
|
| Omura 2019 | Case report | 1 | 16 | | 3 | Oral medication injections with local anesthetic | Percutaneous neurectomy | Recurrent pain within 1 month | 25 | Laparoscopic resection proximal part nerve | Pain-free 2 years |
|
| Scheltinga 2011 | Prospective case series | 6 | 15 (9–16) | To describe the results of a surgical technique termed “anterior cutaneous neurectomy” in children with refractory ACNES | 4 | Oral medication?
Injections with local anesthetic + steroids | Anterior neurectomy | 6 (100%) pain-free | 6 | | |
|
| Siawash 2016 | Cross-sectional cohort | 7 | 15 (SD 2) | To investigate the rate of ACNES in a paediatric outpatient cohort with chronic abdominal pain | ? | Oral medication | Anterior neurectomy | 6 (86%) pain-free | 4–6 weeks | | |
| Injections with local anesthetic + steroids |
|
| Siawash 2017 (ped surgery) | Prospective case series | 60 | 15 (SD 2) | To investigate the safety and short-term success rate of anterior neurectomy in a large paediatric population with ACNES | <6 (1–48) | Oral medication?
Injections with local anesthetic + steroids | Anterior neurectomy | 78% | 4–6 weeks | | |
|
| Yokoyama 2019 | Case report | 1 | 16 | | 6 | Trigger point injection | Neurectomy | | No follow-up | | |
|
| Zganjer 2013 | Retrospective case series | 5 | 15 (11–17) | The surgery for abdominal wall pain caused by cutaneous nerve entrapment in children during the past 5 years | | ? | Local anesthetic ± steroid | Neurectomy | ? | No follow-up | |
|
