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 ...

Doctors in Los Angeles discovered a live checkered periwinkle marine snail, similar to the one seen here, inside an 11-year-old boy's skin abscess about a week after he scraped his elbow in a tide ...

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 ...

A live snail hatched inside an abscess on an 11-year-old California boy’s arm after he cut it in a tidepool, doctors say. He adopted the snail and named it “Turbo.” ...

A scraped elbow may not seem like an unusual injury, but for one 11-year-old boy in California, ... The standard treatment for an abscess is to drain the wound, and the doctor did just that.

A live snail hatched inside an abscess on an 11-year-old California boy’s arm after he cut it in a tidepool, doctors say. He adopted the snail and named it “Turbo.” ...

Doctors even let the excited boy keep the 4 mm creature identified as a chequered periwinkle marine snail.

Medicine: Swimming-Pool Elbow; Medicine: Swimming-Pool Elbow. 3 minute read. TIME. ... The woman’s 18-year-old son cut his finger on the same tank, and soon he too had an abscess on his hand.

DOCTORS have removed a sea snail still in its shell from a boys elbow after he tripped and grazed his arm while visiting a beach. The 11-year-old had been playing on rocks at a beach in San Pedro i… ...

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