[Appendectomy in parallel with gynaecological laparotomy (author's transl)]

An account is given in this paper of 102 cases of appendectomy in parellel with 193 gynaecological laparotomies (52.9 per cent), with reference being made to the small amount of associated complication, as borne out by literature data on larger groups of patients. Particular reference is made, in that context, to legal and clinical prerequisites and to counter-indictions. The authors' own pathohistological findings differed from figures around 90 per cent, as reported elsewhere, in that more or less conspicuous tissue peculiarities were recorded from only 37.5 per cent of all simultaneously removed appendices. That discrepancy in evaluation is discussed. With the relative increase in incidence and complication of senile appendicitis in mind, appendectomy in parallel with gynaecological laparotomy is recommended as a genuine prophylaxis, yet, with due consideration of all necessary conditions.