The vermiform appendix or appendix as we commonly know it, is a vestigial organ of the body which does not come into notice unless it is inflamed (such as in appendicitis). In cases of appendicitis, ...
Read before the Boston Surgical Society, April 16, 1928. From the Surgical Department of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston. Unusual situations of the caecum are not in question here. As a rule, ...
The caecum is a pouch that forms the beginning of the large intestine. It is separated from the ascending colon by the cecocolic junction and from the small intestine by the ileocecal valve. The ...
Read before the Boston Surgical Society, April 16, 1928. From the Surgical Department of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston. Unusual situations of the caecum are not in question here. As a rule, ...