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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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- ...