Incidence of sterility in women operated on in childhood for perforated appendicitis.

Of 80 women who had appendicectomy in childhood 78 were reviewed with reference to sterility. Thirty-nine of them had been operated on for acute perforated appendicitis (APA) and 39 for acute non-perforated appendicitis (ANPA). There was no statistically significant difference in the incidence of sterility between the two groups. In the APA group the incidence of sterility differs from that in sterility models with the same age composition. It may therefore be advisable for young girls to have appendicectomy at at the least indication.