A Florida surgeon mistakenly removed a man’s liver instead of his spleen, causing him to die on the operating table, a lawyer for the man’s widow alleges. William Bryan, 70, of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, ...

Beverly Bryan has claimed her late husband's liver — and not his spleen — was allegedly removed at a Florida hospital Courtesy Zarzaur Law A woman claims a Florida surgeon removed her late husband's ...

The largest spleen ever recorded has been removed from a man in Florida, with the organ weighing almost 27 pounds—more than 12 percent of his total body weight and 8,800 percent larger than an average ...

A Florida surgeon accused of removing a man's liver instead of his spleen during a surgery, causing the patient to bleed out on the operating table, has had his medical license suspended by the state.

A surgeon accidentally killed a patient by removing his liver instead of his spleen, a lawsuit has claimed. Beverly Bryan is suing Florida's Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast Hospital and Dr.

Civil and possible criminal charges are being considered after the death of an Alabama man who died when a surgeon at Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast mistakenly removed the patient’s liver ...

Spleen cancer typically develops when cancer in another part of the body spreads to this fist-sized organ. Symptoms can include abdominal pain and weakness. The spleen is under the rib cage on the ...

Wendy Rappaport was hospitalized for two months after she said in a lawsuit that her healthy kidney was removed instead of her spleen Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty A Minnesota woman has filed a ...

The spleen is an organ tucked away behind the stomach, on the left side of the abdomen. It has several immune and hematologic functions. Enlargement of the spleen is called splenomegaly. In the vast ...