[Appendectomy - tenets of a century].

A small hospital reports on the results of 1302 appendectomies: all degrees of morbidity of the appendix and all patient ages are represented. There were only 2 deaths (0.15%), which also illustrates the very satisfactory success rate in the 16 "urgent early relaparotomies" (only 1 of 11 patients died). Richly demonstrated by case reports, it deals with diagnostic, indicative, and intraoperative problems and finally broaches the subject of "suppurative pylethrombophlebitis" secondary to acute appendicitis, including the question about its fateful course.