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AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

ERWIN R. SCHMIDT, M.D.; ARTHUR C. TAYLOR, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1935;31(1):65-70.

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Stimulated by a desire to compare the conservative and operative methods of treating acute appendicitis, we undertook to produce acute appendicitis in dogs.

Anatomically the dog has no appendix, but the cecum, which is blind, serves as an admirable substitute. The terminal portion of the ileum joins the cecum at its junction with the ascending colon. The lesion of acute appendicitis was produced in varying degrees of severity by ligation of one, two or three of the arterial branches supplying the organ, by crushing and ligating the base of the organ or by a combination of these methods.

EXPERIMENTAL METHODS

Table 1 shows the general plan of the experiment. Appendical damage of mild, moderate or severe degree was produced, and the dogs which survived were examined at intervals thereafter of one, two or three months. Essentially equal numbers of dogs with each degree of damage were examined after operative or . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MADISON, WIS.

From the Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin Medical School.

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