Clyde E. Keeler

Thirty-nine cases of appendicitis in a single family pedigree

Abstract A review of the literature shows that a number of diverse hereditary constitutions are probably conducive to appendicitis. We present a pedigree containing thirty-nine individuals who have suffered from appendicitis. The tendency to appendicitis is hereditary in this pedigree, and seems to involve the transmission of several different types of predisposition.