How a radical surgical approach saved the life of a neonatal nurse practitioner with a rare abdominal cancer - but meant ...

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

Let’s start with this accurate account of what happened on Feb. 15, 1922, at Kane Summit Hospital in New York City. A doctor ...

What causes appendicitis is still somewhat misunderstood or not fully explained. But we do know sometimes it can be a result of stool getting built up in it, plugging it up. It can be different ...

An assessment of subhepatic acute appendicitis was suspected and an emergency operation was conducted which revealed an inflamed subhepatic appendix that was on the verge of rupture. At a subsequent ...

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 ...

After he missed the last six games with a left foot sprain, the Sixers will be without their star for at least another week, the team announced Friday, as Embiid deals with swelling in his left ...

A meta-analysis of the major post-intervention complications of peritonitis and intra-abdominal abscesses occurring after appendicectomy or antibiotic treatment for uncomplicated acute appendicitis ...

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 ...

I thought maybe I had an appendicitis and it had burst ... "They asked if I'd had the swelling on my abdomen for long. It had only been two weeks at most." Mrs Jackson was asked to do a chemical ...

When Anna Jackson, 22, started experiencing abdomen pain, she thought it was caused by period cramps or that she had a burst appendix - but she was pregnant and about to give birth ...

A Manitoba man is suing two health authorities and one doctor, claiming that he was refused treatment for a life-threatening condition that was mistaken for a “hangover.” ...