Experts looked at 300,000 emergency procedures for problems including a burst appendix, blocked bowel or hernia over five years.

She has sustained a series of injuries, once continuing to dance with a burst appendix.

Medicine wasn't exactly very advanced back then, though, so it could have been something else: like a burst appendix.

When he was 12, he had a burst appendix, which kept him in hospital for weeks.

Let's start with her health: collapsed lungs, dialysis for kidney complaints, a burst appendix, a cyst on her tonsils, and a spell in hospital with pneumonia.

An infected or inflamed appendix has to be treated or removed before it bursts and causes a potentially deadly infection.

But surgeons discovered the 'cancerous' lump was an inflamed appendix.

But an inflamed appendix can also be treated by simply giving the patient antibiotics.

They then cut into his stomach lining to remove the inflamed appendix, which was causing him agonising pain.

An inflamed appendix could rupture before we would know what was going on, causing significant complication.

He was taken to hospital for an op to remove his appendix.

The 38-year-old was rushed into theatre for an emergency operation to remove his appendix.

The gutsy midfielder put his body on the line with a non-stop 90 minutes 12 days after an emergency op to remove his appendix.

Two days later he had keyhole surgery to remove his appendix.

She had been told that the surgery was to remove her appendix.

She has arthritis and has undergone surgery for a ruptured appendix.

He served in that position for eight months until his sudden death from peritonitis caused by a ruptured appendix.

Hardy suffered a legitimate ruptured appendix while he was off television, putting their feud on hold.

The first was when he almost died of a ruptured appendix, and the second was when he suffered a flesh-eating disease that almost cost him his entire leg.

A ruptured appendix can be potentially fatal.