Postoperative leukocytosis Witter (Surg., gyn. a. obst., 1925, 1)

Witter (Surg., Gyn. A. Obst., 1925, 1), on the basis of a study of 30 cases, comes to the conclusion that 1) postoperative leukocytosis reaches its inaximum a on the 4th hour after the operation and returns to normal on the 5th day , 2) its height is directly proportional to the duration of the operation and the degree of the surgical trauma, the other factors are not; are significant, 3) it is expressed mainly by polynucleosis, 4) its curve generally corresponds to the temperature curve, but not with complete accuracy.