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 ...
Initial results of the CLASICC trial have recently been presented in the Lancet by Guillou and co-workers. This study aimed to compare the short-term outcomes of laparoscopic resection with those of ...
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Doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) performed a rare, life-saving surgery to remove a nearly 20-kg ...
Colon cancer symptoms often don't exist. An active woman shares how repeated nudges from a loved one led to her diagnosis: "My entire life changed that day." ...
A mum, 43, with two young children reveals how she had cancer for years before she was diagnosed and wants to encourage ...
Sang W. Lee PROCTOLOGY Clinical Professor; Chief, Colon and Rectal Surgery Keck Medicine of USC Sang W. Lee, MD has pioneered ...
Nebraska medical startup Virtual Incision Corp. completed an $18 million series B round of financing, Silicon Prairie News reports. Virtual Incision developed a surgical robot for colon resection, and ...
Jamie Ball thought she had gallstones when her side hurt. After she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, she learned she'd need a new liver to live. When Jamie Ball felt sharp pain in her side, ...
Case 1 (M.G.H. 22714). A 25-year-old woman with a lye stricture of the esophagus was admitted to the hospital on November 2, 1955, for the 71st time. At the age of 4 she had accidentally swallowed lye ...