An 80-year-old man presented with progressive lower left-quadrant abdominal pain. Imaging studies identified a mass adjacent to the sigmoid colon, with features suggestive of an abscess, although no ...

Necrotizing enterocolitis is a serious disease affecting the intestines of a newborn baby. It involves a severe inflammation that damages and kills tissues in the baby’s colon, resulting in ...

Doctors at Guthrie Healthcare System, in Sayre, Pennsylvania, have documented a case of a teenage boy who swallowed 21 disc magnets. In their paper published in BMJ Case Reports, the medical team ...

Perforation made immediate open surgery critical in an exceptionally rare case involving a 22-year-old transgender patient ...