A Chicago-area hospital is being sued by a former patient after he claimed that the surgeon who operated on him left a surgical sponge in his neck.

His chemotherapy treatment was delayed as doctors attempted to figure out the cause of his pain, an Illinois attorney says.

A surgeon performing a second procedure found and removed a surgical sponge from the initial surgery, according to the court ...

Surgery for tumors in a sublingual gland involves removal (excision) of the entire gland ... Salivary gland cancers often spread to the lymph nodes in the neck first before they spread anywhere else.

You might have surgery to remove lymph nodes in your tummy (abdomen). These are called the retroperitoneal lymph nodes. This operation is called a retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. This is a ...

Modified radical mastectomy This surgery combines a total mastectomy with the removal of axillary (underarm) lymph nodes. You’ll need this surgery if the cancer is locally advanced and involves skin, ...

A lawsuit has been filed alleging that medical staff at Northwestern Medicine Hospital in McHenry left a surgical sponge ...