What is the appropriate management of acute uncomplicated appendicitis in contemporary South Africa?

Abstract

Acute appendicitis has afflicted humankind throughout our existence but has been a surgical disease for little over one hundred and fifty years. Leonardo da Vinci first drew the appendix in 1508, and several anatomists described it over the next two centuries. These included Berengarius in 1522, Andreas Vesalius in 1543 and Giovanni Battista Morgagni in 1719.¹