[Acute appendicitis: its influence on human kind history].
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.
García-Sancho Martín
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