Abdominal pain is among the most common reasons children are taken to the emergency department. A small proportion of them ...

[7] Appendicitis is common in middle age ... The symptoms of SBO are usually typical. Abdominal pain, distension, and vomiting commonly are seen, accompanied by constipation.

Background: Recent literature supports the use of CT for all patients with right lower quadrant pain to improve diagnostic ... in patients for whom appendicitis is included in the differential ...

Researchers found that large pediatric centers achieve low rates of delayed diagnosis of appendicitis while also having the lowest rates of CT use.

Current research has not found an association between rheumatoid arthritis and appendicitis, but some studies found a link between other autoimmune diseases and appendicitis.

Systemic discrimination is a lingering issue in Manitoba's health-care system, First Nations leaders in Manitoba say, after a Cree man's lawsuit alleging a doctor assumed what turned out to be ...

Anna Jackson, 22, started getting a pain in her abdomen but put it down to period ... I thought maybe I had an appendicitis and it had burst. "They think she was pressed right up against my ...

"Children with abdominal pain are a diagnostic conundrum. On the one hand those who have appendicitis need to be diagnosed in a timely manner, but on the other hand the most common diagnostic tool we ...

Abdominal pain is among the most common reasons children are taken to the emergency department.A small proportion of them usually have appendicitis ...