Surprised doctors find 10-inch worm in man’s groin during elective surgery

When surgeons dug into a man’s groin to repair a painless bulge, they made the unexpected discovery of a living, 10-inch-long ...

Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He actually had worms.

When cysticerci enter a person’s central nervous system, it’s a disease called neurocysticercosis (NCC), which is the diagnosis the doctors in Spain gave the man. Testing after his MRI revealed his ...

Doctors thought a 60-year-old man had brain cancer, but scans revealed tapeworms inside his brain; he had never travelled abroad, and when they asked about his dail…

A 60-year-old man in Castellón, Spain, was treated for suspected metastatic brain cancer this year before doctors discovered ...
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Doctors find knife blade that had been in man’s chest for 8 years

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (Gray News) - Doctors say a man was living with a knife blade embedded in his chest unknowingly for nearly a decade. According to PubMed Central, an electronic archive of ...

Doctors thought man had deadly brain cancer — the reality was much grosser

Talk about a wriggly situation. When a man in Spain went to the hospital with chronic headaches, brain scans showed poorly-defined lesions, or tissue where the edges are blurred due to abnormal cell ...