A teenager in the UK who showed up at a hospital's pediatric unit complaining of stomach pain ended up getting an appendectomy—but it was something else entirely that had caused her distress, per an ...

The internet’s awash with stomach-churning spectacles, and this is one of the most memorable. A teenager’s appendix wriggling with scores of tiny worms is quite a sight, after all. Dr Luke Allen, a ...

A young woman of Arabic/North African descent who had moved to Germany presented with hyper-/dysmenorrhea and secondary sterility. Endometriosis was suspected, and swelling of the appendix was ...

Despite this, her temperature was normal, and initial tests, including blood work and imaging, were inconclusive. A pelvic ultrasound showed a small ovarian cyst, and a CT scan revealed mild ...

For decades, the appendix has been dismissed as a useless organ — a leftover from human evolution with no real function.

Intestinal worms are organisms that feed off the human body. Tapeworm, hookworm, pinworm, and other types of worms affect the body in different ways. A person may notice worms in stool. Types of ...

THE author took this structure as an illustration in reply to those who are not yet satisfied that structures exist which are useless to the animal body containing them. Referring first to the case of ...

DOCTORS were shocked to discover pinworms living inside a teenager's appendix. The 15-year-old arrived at A&E doubled over with tummy pain, feeling sick, and unable to eat - all classic signs of ...