Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A: Diverticular-associated colitis is an interesting clinical scenario that is occasionally encountered by the ...

Elective sigmoid resection for patients with recurrent, complicated, or persistent painful diverticulitis yielded a better quality of life and prevented recurrences compared with nonsurgical ...

Distal Spread of Carcinoma of the Rectosigmoid. In 1952 Cole 10 reported the recurrence of carcinoma in the suture line after adequate anterior resection of the rectum in 10 per cent of a series of 55 ...

Resection is another name for any operation that removes tissue or part of an organ. Bowel resection, also called partial colectomy, removes a diseased or damaged part of the colon or rectum. Bowel ...

THE incidence of sigmoidal volvulus in the United States is so low that few surgeons acquire great experience in dealing with it. It is reported by most authors as ranging between 1 and 4 per cent of ...

The sigmoid colon is the last section of the bowel — the part that attaches to the rectum. It pushes feces along the bowel tract. It’s about a foot and a half long (around 40 centimeters) and is ...

Incidence rates for anal cancer in the United States: 1980-2009. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2013 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract does not include a full text component ...

Long-term severe complications were similar with laparoscopic lavage and primary resection in perforated purulent diverticulitis patients, researchers reported, although recurrence was more frequent ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The 70-year-old patient had initially presented with rectal bleeding. Colonoscopy revealed a large ulcerated, ...

A redundant or tortuous colon is an abnormally long colon that cannot fit inside the body without looping or twisting. There is no obvious cause, but it can lead to complications and gastrointestinal ...