It’s a classic physician’s dilemma, but a new study led by the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center may ease the pediatrician’s problem-solving and parents’ anxiety. Reporting on their review of the ...

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

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

Initial tests showed no signs of stump appendicitis, and he was diagnosed with mesenteric adenitis. However, his symptoms worsened and inflammatory markers increased, leading to another CT scan.

A lawsuit claims that Stamford Health staffers’ failed to diagnose a pregnant woman’s appendicitis, leading to the deaths of ...

A coroner has sounded the alarm over medical training after four doctors failed to spot appendicitis in a schoolgirl who ...

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 ...

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

Paper read before the Surgical Fortnightly Club.