INCIDENCE OF ASYMPTOMATIC PATHOLOGIC CONDITIONS OF THE APPENDIX

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This paper is based on a study of the records of 2,065 consecutive incidental appendectomies performed at St. Luke's Hospital in the period between 1925 and 1935 inclusive. The word incidental as used here refers to those appendectomies performed during abdominal operations, the indications for which were in no way associated with the appendix. None is included which was performed when present or past disease of the appendix was suspected before operation. Doubtless some of the patients may have had appendical symptoms at some time in the past, but neither the history nor the physical findings suggested any pathologic condition of the appendix. Originally this analysis was undertaken to obtain a standard for comparison with the pathologic conditions found in appendixes removed because of symptoms attributed to chronic appendicitis. By selecting the material as previously noted and then eliminating all in which any inflammatory condition was present elsewhere in the

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