Even though they might not be as effective as the appendix, they're still capable of storing good bacteria, explains professor Parker, this time in an article for Duke Magazine. The cecum, a ...

The large intestine—which includes the cecum, colon, rectum, and anus—is a key part of the digestive system. It's a long, thin organ at the end of your digestive tract where your body produces ...

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A CT scan revealed she had a perforated appendix. That same day Emily underwent emergency open surgery to remove the appendix and the cecum, the beginning part of the large intestine, and had to have ...

LA has become the approach of choice by many surgeons in the treatment of both simple and complicated cases of acute appendicitis. The rate of LA between 1998 and 2008 increased from 20.6% to 70.8 ...

A 5-year-old with abdominal pain, nausea and fever may have appendicitis or any of a number of other problems. But how does the child’s doctor decide whether to schedule an emergency appendectomy to ...

It can be argued that in US Emergency Departments, the diagnosis of acute appendicitis has shifted from clinical impression to radiographic confirmation, even for patients for whom the diagnosis ...

Figure 3. Participant three CT image. The area in the yellow box shows increased metabolic activity in the cecum and ascending colon with a filing defect suggesting a possible anomaly or irregularity ...

Innovative application of an existing drug offers promising alternative treatment to traditional chemotherapy for patients with appendix cancer. Researchers at University of California San Diego ...