A SCHOOLGIRL, 11, died after four doctors “missed her appendicitis”, an inquest has heard. Lacey Brookman’s appendix is ...

An 11-year-old girl died after four doctors failed to spot her appendicitis, an inquest has ruled.Lacey Brookman, a Year 6 ...

USA: A recent study using data from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Pediatric (NSQIP-P) database has ...

Background Acute appendicitis is a local intestinal inflammation with unclear origin. The aim was to test whether bacteria in appendicitis differ in composition to bacteria found in caecal biopsies ...

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 ...

A 5-year-old with abdominal pain, nausea and fever may have appendicitis or any of a number of other problems. But how does the child’s doctor decide whether to schedule an emergency appendectomy to ...

Whether dogs can get appendicitis or not is a good question. After all, appendicitis is a serious condition that can land you in the hospital, and right after than, on the surgical table. Discover ...

A nineteen-year-old patient who claims physicians mishandled her treatment for appendicitis can’t pursue her lawsuit without divulging her medical records in open court, the Massachusetts Appeals ...

Nonoperative management of uncomplicated appendicitis in children is feasible and well tolerated, with a small proportion of patients experiencing recurrent symptoms that require appendectomy ...

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