Open AccessIncidence of Sterility in Women Operated on in Childhood for Perforated Appendicitis
Author(s) -
Geerdsen J.,
Hansen J. Bech
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
acta obstetricia et gynecologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1600-0412
pISSN - 0001-6349
DOI - 10.3109/00016347709155024
Subject(s) - sterility , medicine , incidence (geometry) , acute appendicitis , appendicitis , obstetrics , gynecology , surgery , pediatrics , genetics , physics , optics , biology
Abstract. Of 80 women who had appendicectomy in childhood 78 were reviewed with reference to sterility. Thirty‐nine of them had been operated on for acute perforated appendicitis (APA) and 39 for acute non‐perforated appendicitis (ANPA). There was no statistically significant difference in the incidence of sterility between the two groups. In the APA group the incidence of sterility differs from that in sterility models with the same age composition. It may therefore be advisable for young girls to have appendicectomy at the least indication.