title: Appendicitis: the quintessential American surgical disease.
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Rutkow
mesh_terms: D001064:Appendicitis / Q000266:history* / Q000601:surgery; D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States