Using antibiotics alone to treat children with uncomplicated appendicitis is a cost-saving alternative to surgery, according ...

The average age was approximately nine years, the duration of symptoms prior to ... of IV therapy in perforated appendicitis. In summary, our data show that children with perforated appendicitis ...

Let's discover it! Appendicitis is the inflammation of the appendix, a tube-shaped structure found by the colon in the lower right quadrant of the abdomen. When the appendix in humans gets red and ...

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 Kelowna General Hospital emergency department doctor’s misdiagnosis of a case of appendicitis was “reasonable and logical,” ...

Severe diarrhea may mean a child has a serious disease. Talk with your child's healthcare provider if symptoms don’t go away. Also talk with the provider if symptoms stop your child from doing daily ...

Katy Stephenson, 50, was terrified when her stomach bloated and was in "excruciating" pain, which her GP initially put down ...