Editing Appendectomy (section)

== History ==
[[File:Appendectomy at the French Hospital in Tiflis (Dartigues 1919).JPG|thumb|An appendectomy at the French Hospital in [[Tbilisi, Georgia]], 1919]]
The first recorded successful appendectomy was performed in September 1731 by English surgeon William Cookesley on Abraham Pike, a chimney sweep.<ref>{{cite journal|title=A considerable share of the intestines cut off after a mortification in a hernia and cured|journal=Medical Essays and Observations|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Society for the Improvement of Medical Knowledge|volume=5|issue=1|year=1742|pages=427–31}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=Peter|last=Selley|title=William Cookesley, William Hunter and the first patient to survive removal of the appendix in 1731 – a case history with 31 years' follow up|journal=Journal of Medical Biography|volume=24|year=2016|issue=2|pages=180–3|doi=10.1177/0967772015591717|pmid=26758584|s2cid=1708483}}</ref> The second was on December 6, 1735, at [[St George's, University of London|St. George's Hospital]] in London, when French surgeon [[Claudius Amyand (surgeon)|Claudius Amyand]] described the presence of a perforated appendix within the [[inguinal hernia]]l sac of an 11-year-old boy.<ref name=":4">{{cite book|last1=Yelon|first1=Jay A.|last2=Luchette|first2=Fred A.|title=Geriatric Trauma and Critical Care|date=2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9781461485018|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uoi4BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA99|language=en}}</ref> The organ had apparently been perforated by a pin the boy had swallowed. The patient, Hanvil Andersen, made a recovery and was discharged a month later.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Amyand|first1=Claudius|title=Of an inguinal rupture, with a pin in the appendix caeci, incrusted with stone; and some observations on wounds in the guts|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London|date=1735|volume=39|issue=443|pages=329–336|doi=10.1098/rstl.1735.0071|doi-access=free}}</ref>

Harry Hancock performed the first [[abdominal surgery]] for appendicitis in 1848, but he did not remove the appendix.<ref>{{cite book|title=Schwartz's principles of surgery|date=2010|publisher=McGraw-Hill, Medical Pub. Division|location=New York|isbn=9780071547697|page=1075|edition=9}}</ref> In 1889 in New York City, [[Charles McBurney (surgeon)|Charles McBurney]] described the presentation and pathogenesis of appendicitis accurately and developed the teaching that an early appendectomy was the best treatment to avoid perforation and [[peritonitis]].

Some cases of autoappendectomies have occurred. One was attempted by [[Evan O'Neill Kane]] in 1921, but the operation was completed by his assistants. Another was [[Leonid Rogozov]], who in 1961 had to perform the operation on himself as he was the only doctor on a remote Antarctic base.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Rogozov V. |author2=Bermel N. |title=Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic: case report |journal=BMJ |volume=339 |pages=b4965 |year=2009 |pmid=20008968 |doi=10.1136/bmj.b4965 |s2cid=12503748 |url=http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/339/dec15_1/b4965 |access-date=2010-06-29 |archive-date=2010-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100219233608/http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/339/dec15_1/b4965 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Lentati|first1=Sara|title=The man who cut out his own appendix|date=May 5, 2015|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32481442|website=BBC News|access-date=June 21, 2018|archive-date=July 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728102339/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32481442|url-status=live}}</ref>

On September 13, 1980, [[Kurt Semm]] performed the first [[laparoscopic]] appendectomy, opening up the path for a much wider application of minimally invasive surgery.<ref name=litynski>{{cite journal |author=Grzegorz S. Litynski|title= Kurt Semm and the Fight against Skepticism: Endoscopic Hemostasis, Laparoscopic Appendectomy, and Semm's Impact on the "Laparoscopic Revolution" |journal=JSLS |pmid=9876762 |pmc=3015306 |volume=2 |issue= 3 |year=1998 |pages=309–13}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Semm K |title=Endoscopic Appendectomy |journal=Endoscopy |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=59–64 |date=March 1983 |doi=10.1055/s-2007-1021466 |pmid=6221925 |s2cid=45763958 }}</ref>