Background: Recent literature supports the use of CT for all patients with right lower quadrant pain to improve diagnostic accuracy and reduce hospital cost. Our current practice at a large ...

Laura Wharam had a double mastectomy but 4 years later her breast cancer returned and metastasized, spreading to her liver, bones, and lungs.

The appendicitis jumping up test, also known as the J-up test, is a clinical test that may help with the diagnosis of appendicitis in children. It involves asking a child to jump up, while trying ...

A woman was told she had appendicitis, only to later learn that her symptoms were the result of something much more serious. After countless doctors visits for irregular periods and extreme ...

Among children with suspected nonperforated appendicitis, antibiotic management appeared inferior to appendectomy, according ...

The 30-year-old insurance salesperson — who was among the 25 women vying for “Bachelor” Grant Ellis’ final rose — confirmed Tuesday that she left the series due to appendicitis.

It can be argued that in US Emergency Departments, the diagnosis of acute appendicitis has shifted from clinical impression to radiographic confirmation, even for patients for whom the diagnosis ...

An investigation into the baby’s death determined the girl had died from “complications of medical and nutritional neglect with necrotizing appendicitis and chronic malnutrition.” ...

Granada guard Gian Claevell had a brush with death last week due to complications from appendicits, his wife revealed on ...

Integrated emergency, critical, and surgical care must be strengthened and scaled up globally, warn authors of a new paper (1) published in the March issue of the Bulletin of the World Health ...