In cases of a perforated appendix, I sometimes find the appendix, including the base, grossly gangrenous and seemingly undergoing autolysis. I find it impossible to place a good ligature around the ...

"Thankfully, my appendix will not be bothering me anymore." "Dancing with the Stars" judge Carrie Ann Inaba is on the mend after having an emergency appendectomy. Inaba, 55, shared that she was ...

Gangrenous cholecystitis, or gangrene of the gallbladder, happens when severe inflammation due to cholecystitis leads to tissue death. Gangrenous cholecystitis — also known as gangrenous gallbladder ...

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March 31 (UPI) --Dancing with the Stars judge Carrie Ann Inaba is recovering after undergoing an emergency appendectomy. The 55-year-old television personality said Thursday that she was hospitalized ...