EDITORIAL COMMENT During a study of the epidemiology of appendicitis it was found that acute appendicitis is equally common in men and in women. Appendicectomy for non-acute appendicitis is commoner in women, and it is suggested that these patients are suffering from pain originating in the genital organs.
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David J. B. Ashley (1967) studied this question.
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