A man went to the hospital several times with gut pain and a fever — and it turned out that his relatively common symptoms had an unusual cause.

Surgical Intervention for Gastrointestinal Foreign Bodies in Adult Patients: A Case Series. Surgical Science, 16, 182-193.

SPRING is here and while many of us are jumping for joy, it is also the time of year when lots of people come down with a bug ...

“It is not normal and ... Bloodwork and abdominal imaging can help vets identify the cause. “Any time blood is noted, that’s not something to be ignored,” Krebs said. “If there is blood in vomit or ...

All children had normal platelet counts. Two children had a CT scan (figure 2) and two had an ultrasound scan (USS) of the abdomen. Abdominal X-ray (AXR) revealed a varying degree of PI (isolated or ...

This blockage prevents the normal flow of urine out of the kidney and into the bladder ... A voiding cystourethrogram is an X-ray test that visualizes whether dye injected into the bladder (through a ...

Renal and liver function tests were normal ... plain abdominal x-ray may still exhibit modified features of Rigler’s triad, however, these may not be immediately obvious and therefore a high index of ...