It's the stuff of nightmares: Someone goes in for an operation and a fatal mistake is made. It wasn't the first time a similar error was made by the surgeon ...

NORTHWEST FLORIDA (WKRG) — A 47-page report from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration brings to light the details surrounding the surgery that led to a man’s death. In August, 70-year-old ...

Chemotherapy usually works well at reducing the size of the spleen. But rarely, some people need an operation to remove their spleen (splenectomy). The spleen's normal job is to filter the blood and ...

Although routine pathology review of tissue specimens after splenectomy is clinically beneficial for patients with splenomegaly, abnormal imaging results, a previous diagnosis of cancer, or a grossly ...

MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. (WKRC) - The lawsuit accuses the surgeon of mistakenly removing a liver instead of a spleen, resulting in the death of a patient. Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast Hospital in ...