Lower abdominal pain is extremely common and can arise due ... most commonly occur on the lower left side. These pouches are ideal hiding places for germs and can readily get infected, resulting ...

In a woman do not forget gynecologic causes of acute abdomen (see Chapter on Abdominal pain in women (Page DFH-OBG-1 & 2). Rectus sheath hematoma.

A woman in Jodhpur, India, endured three months of severe abdominal pain after a surgical towel was left inside her abdomen during a C-section. Multiple hospitals misdiagnosed her condition until ...

The Commissioner noted it was the second time in two years that a device had been left in an Auckland hospitals' patient. Getty Images The woman endured chronic abdominal pain after the hospital ...