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On December 6, 1735, surgeon Claudius Amyand performed the first recorded successful appendectomy on an 11 year old boy named Hanvil Anderson. The appendix was trapped in an inguinal hernia, a condition now known as Amyand’s hernia.

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2018-01-17

NeurosurgicalAtlas: Step-by-step directions with illustrations to perform an intradural clinoidectomy - with https://t.co/a3NliXyiI5

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2018-01-16

Russian surgeon goes mad during appendectomy, 1911 https://t.co/rt2vx85m9K

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2016-06-24