We report a child of elongated retrocecal appendicitis who presented with abdominal pain over the right upper quadrant and circular skin erythema over the right flank. Sonography showed an ...

An abdominal ultrasound showed an enlarged subhepatic appendix with an internal fecalith 1 cm in depth, that was partially compressible, with no obvious peri appendiceal free fluid or other pathology.

In a new study published in the journal The Lancet, researchers have explored the possibility of treating acute, non-perforated appendicitis in children with antibiotics instead of surgery.

Failure of antibiotics was defined as patients having a subsequent appendicectomy, and failure in the appendicectomy group was defined as patients having a normal appendix identified on pathology. A ...

With nowhere else to go for medical treatment in The Pas, Flett says he took an 11-hour bus trip from the northern Manitoba town to Winnipeg, where his appendix burst as he waited for a hospital ...

The device delivers ultrasound energy to the patient’s pancreas and generates localized heat of up to 100 degrees Celsius that destroys cancer cells in the organ. Other types of ultrasound waves ...

Methods: The clinical and ultrasound features of fibrous pseudotumor of the tunica vaginalis diagnosed by pathology in West China Hospital of Sichuan University from 2006 to 2023 were retrospectively ...