title: [Acute appendicitis: its influence on human kind history].
abstract: Acute appendicitis is a very frequent disease. Anyhow, this disease hasn't been well either known or treated until the last XIX century and has been a true plague for men. In this paper we expose the most important steps in the long way that we have roved until reaching the present treatment of this entity.
authors: Luis
authors: L
authors: García-Sancho Martín
mesh_terms: D001064:Appendicitis / Q000266:history* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans