Inexplicable medical mistakes like this are called “never events,” and they aren’t quite as rare as their name suggests.

METHODS: Preoperative splenic artery embolization was used in 26 of 54 patients (48%) undergoing laparoscopic splenectomy. Between 1992 and 1994, this procedure was used in all patients with ...

When the disease affects the splenic artery or vein, the adjacent spleen is often removed. After removal of the end of the pancreas, the remaining portion of the organ functions normally by producing ...

The family of an Alabama man said 70-year-old William Bryan died after his liver was mistakenly removed during a medical ...

LOVED family pet from Herefordshire is enjoying a new lease of life after a lump the size of a melon was removed from his ...