A 46-year-old female with a history of chronic constipation and episodes of minor rectal bleeding underwent colonoscopy. She was diagnosed with an infrarenal abdominal aorta aneurysm for which ...

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers affecting both women and men; it kills approximately 50% of patients and this number has been almost unchanged for 20 years. Gene expression arrays ...

PNEUMATOSIS cystoides intestinalis is a rare condition characterized by the presence of gas-filled cysts involving the intestinal wall and its attachments. It is known under a variety of names: gas ...

The left colic vein assists the body by draining old blood from the intestines. The left colic vein is a branch of the inferior mesenteric vein that is responsible for draining the left flexure and ...

Japanese golf legend Masashi Ozaki died at 78 after battling stage 4 sigmoid colon cancer. The disease develops in the lower ...

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 ...

The colon, or large intestine, is where fibers and digested food are turned into stools. It has numerous sections, including the ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon, ...

This operation removes a diseased section of the rectum and sigmoid colon. Doctors use it to treat the following conditions: Cancers of the colon and rectum Some types of noncancerous growths in the ...

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PC, a rare condition, is a form of pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis that generally presents late in middle age. It is characterized by the presence of multiple gas-filled cysts within the wall of ...