Primary sigmoid colon cancer tissue was collected from a 29-year-old female Chinese patient during palliative surgery. The sigmoid colon cancer tissue was cut into small pieces and washed three times ...

The sigmoid colon — the part of the large intestine ... so Cunningham performed a follow-up surgery two days later and removed about 14 inches of her colon to shorten and tighten it.

Treatments include anti-inflammatory and immune-suppressing medications, and less often, surgery. The exact cause of ulcerative colitis is not known ... intestinal symptoms and looks for the presence ...

It is characterised by the presence of a diverticulum exceeding 4 cm in size, with approximately 90% of the cases involving the sigmoid colon. Typically, diagnosis relies on CT of the ... He was ...

Ostomy surgery is a term for any of the operations that allow bodily waste or fluids (most commonly stool or urine) to leave the body. Any of these types of surgeries and their outcome is called an ...

She had been in pain for the entire 90-minute flight. Her abdomen was so distended and tender that she felt as if it might ...

How you feel after your bowel (colon) cancer operation depends on what type of surgery you have. After a big operation, you might wake up in the intensive care unit (ICU) or high dependency unit (HDU) ...

Background: Although the advantages of single-incision laparoscopic surgery have been reported in several meta-analyses, the low quality of studies included in the meta-analyses limits the reliability ...

The first treatment for colon cancer is usually surgery to remove a section of the colon. This is called a partial colectomy. Most often, doctors can reconnect the separated sections of the colon ...