A man who swallowed a toothpick after finishing a meal had to have an emergency op after surgeons found it embedded in his stomach. The patient - named as Mr…
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Shocked surgeons have removed a massive tumour from an 18-year-old girl's stomach after her parents thought she was putting on weight. The 20-kilogramme (44-lb) growth - the…
Rare brain operations carried out 3,500 years ago on two elite – and perhaps even royal – brothers by Bronze Age surgeons have been revealed by archaeologists. The skulls of…
A seven-year-old girl diagnosed with a rare case of breast cancer at the age of five has had to have her breast removed as a result. Local experts claimed this…
A seven-year-old boy has died after swallowing a button battery while on holiday in Portugal. The family - from Payerne, Switzerland - had been spending the winter break in the…
A three-year-old boy has been saved after surgeons removed a silver play coin that had been stuck in his throat for three months. His parents - from Siem Pang District,…
Surgeons in China removed shocking 61 magnetic balls from a four-year-old girl's stomach who ended up with 14 holes in her intestine after accidentally swallowing the beads. The little girl,…
Surgeons have removed an astonishing 46-kilogramme tumour from a woman who thought she'd just been putting on weight. The tumour - about the same weight as a small person -…
A terrified baby needed 50 stitches to her face after a savage attack by a neighbour's escaped pit bull. Cosmetic surgeons had to reconstruct the infant's face after her horrified…
This is the baffling haul of metal objects surgeons removed from a woman's stomach after she went to hospital complaining of abdominal pain. The 25-year-old - not named in local…