[Appendix somewhat different-Excerpts from the history, controversies of the present and view to the future].

If one could talk about a superstar in abdominal surgery, the appendix would definitely be qualified for this name. Much has already been said about the vermiform appendix. The potential to talk about the appendix is, however, by no means exhausted. In this article already published articles are selected and subsumed. Less known details on the discovery and research of the appendix as well as the diagnostics of appendicitis and establishment of appendectomy are also included.