Breaking new ground in what many surgeons consider the next frontier in minimally invasive surgery, surgeons have successfully performed an appendectomy with no abdominal incision. The appendix was ...

On Wednesday, March 12, 2008, surgeons at UC-San Diego Medical Center performed what is believed to be the country's first removal of a diseased appendix through the mouth. They made one small ...

Breaking new ground in what many surgeons consider the next frontier in minimally invasive surgery, Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital surgeon Kurt Roberts, M.D., successfully ...

The NHS undertakes 50,000 appendectomies each year. Here, Michele Stanley, 20, a nursery nurse who lives with her mother near Birmingham, talks about her keyhole appendectomy and her surgeon explains ...

Joe Burrow's left knee has been a point of concern after the Cincinnati Bengals quarterback tore his anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in 2020. But now, a new culprit is afflicting the ...

When the patient came in, she was having repeated bouts of lower abdominal pain. The doctor suspected appendicitis and scheduled surgery. But instead of spending five days in the hospital and three to ...

Appendicitis often begins with dull pain in the lower abdomen. But it can quickly transform into an emergency requiring immediate medical attention. Appendicitis is the inflammation of the appendix, a ...

MEDICAL MATTERS: Doctors in training usually have a fair idea of what they want to specialise in. So when working the obligatory six-month surgical internship, those with no real interest in surgery ...

Approximately 50,000 appendicectomies are carried out by the NHS each year. Here Jody Ford, 26, a strategic analyst from London, describes an operation to remove his gangrenous appendix, and his ...

Did you know that appendicitis affects one in 15 in their lifetime? The appendix is a finger sized pouch along the large intestine and may become swollen in response to infection in the body. This ...