title: What is the function of the human vermiform appendix?. Evolution-based surgery: a new perspective in the Darwinian year 2009.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ansaloni
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Catena
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Pinna
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D001062:Appendectomy / Q000266:history; D001065:Appendix / Q000502:physiology* / Q000601:surgery; D005075:Biological Evolution; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological