Colon cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer if you don’t count skin cancers. If the cancer hasn’t spread, then one of the possible treatments is a sigmoid colectomy. That may be a ...

THIS paper reviews the experience at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in the surgical treatment of diverticulitis coli during the past decade. The reasons for making this study are several. First 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 ...

A colonoscopy technique involving repeat intubation of the sigmoid colon significantly improves detection of adenomas compared with conventional colonoscopy evaluations, new research showed. “After ...

To date, long-term safety including functional outcomes of transanal natural orifice specimen extraction surgery (NOSES) for colorectal cancer resection has not been confirmed. To explore the short- ...

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 ...

In patients with perforated diverticulitis and peritonitis, primary anastomosis proved superior to Hartmann's procedure for 12-month stoma-free survival and overall morbidity after stoma reversal, ...

Doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) performed a rare, life-saving surgery to remove a nearly 20-kg tumour from a 43-year-old stage-4 colon cancer patient. The complex, two-stage ...