title: [A delicate and life saving appendectomy].
abstract: An appendectomy which was practiced in the camp of Dachau to save the life of one of the torturers looks like a dangerous wager and the writer shows how a good surgeon could win the bet through his skillfulness and save life of his comrades and his own.
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gaudiot
mesh_terms: D001877:Books; D003209:Concentration Camps / Q000266:history*; D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history; D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D017767:Holocaust / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history*