OUR interest in retractile mesenteritis was first aroused when one of us (C.G.T.) was consulted on an exploratory laparotomy for a suspected tumor in the large bowel. The tumor was not found, and the ...

An appeals court has upheld a family's $9.5 million jury award after a physician left an 18-inch sponge in a patient's abdomen that remained in her stomach for 5 years. During the surgery, performed ...

A 12-year-old male was transferred from an outside facility to our hospital with a suspected diagnosis of ruptured appendicitis. Prior to transport, he received broad-spectrum IV antibiotics and IV ...

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Babafemi said that the suspect had undergone surgery, exploratory laparotomy, to let out 57 out of 81 pellets of cocaine stuck in his stomach. Businessman who ingested 81 wraps of cocaine in Ethiopia ...