An 11-year-old boy in Los Angeles discovered a snail had been living inside of his elbow for a whole week. According to a recent article published in the medical journal BMJ Case, the boy cut his ...

Feb. 12 (UPI) --Pediatricians in Los Angeles said they were treating an 11-year-old boy's skin abscess when they made an unusual discovery -- a live snail inside the wound. Dr. Albert Khait, an ...

A checkered periwinkle marine snail, similar to these sitka periwinkles, was found growing inside an abscess on an 11-year-old Southern California boy’s arm. Emily Grason University of Washington When ...

A scraped elbow may not seem like an unusual injury, but for one 11-year-old boy in California, his health took an odd turn after he fell and hurt his left elbow while exploring a tide pool. The boy's ...

Several cases of doctors removing massive tumours and even metallic objects from people’s bodies have been reported in the past few years. But with every incident things discovered by doctors get even ...

Upon examination doctors noted an abscess with a "palpable nodule" poking out of it DOCTORS have removed a sea snail still in its shell from a boys elbow after he tripped and grazed his arm while ...