Background Laparoscopic appendectomy is not yet unanimously considered the "gold standard" in the treatment of acute appendicitis because of its higher operative time, intra-abdominal abscess risk, ...

A woman who complained of stomach pain was preparing to have her appendix removed when doctors discovered she was actually in LABOUR. Janice Kerwick, 43, thought she was infertile because she had been ...

WHEN Dave Rideout took his daughter to hospital to have her burst appendix out, he never suspected it would be one of their final days together. And given it was a routine operation, Dave, 52, assumed ...

Appendicitis. Illustration of a human appendix, showing it red and inflamed in appendicitis. The appendix is a narrow finger-shaped tube that branches off the first part of the large intestine (caecum ...