Q: I was diagnosed with diverticulitis, which caused a bowel perforation. I had a sigmoidectomy, no problem, and a resection.

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 ...

Pope Francis resumed his weekly appearances from a Vatican window to bless the faithful 2 weeks after undergoing surgery on July 4. The pontiff had nearly half of his colon removed due to severe ...

DIVERTICULOSIS and diverticulitis are relatively common in persons past the age of forty-five. Ochsner and Bargen 1 discovered that in all the patients registered at the Mayo Clinic in 1933, x-ray ...

The introduction of bowel cancer screening, in the United Kingdom, United States of America, and many other Western countries, has provided considerable interest and no little diagnostic consternation ...

A patient presented with a 3-year history of vague lower abdominal pain and flatulence. A barium enema of the colon revealed colonic diverticulae mainly in the sigmoid colon. Is it possible to predict ...

I was diagnosed with diverticulitis, which caused a bowel perforation. I had a sigmoidectomy, no problem, and a resection. Now I’m dealing with constant and urgent diarrhea, as well as some cramping.

A laparoscopic total abdominal colectomy is an operation that removes the large intestine. Doctors use it to treat conditions including: Inflammatory conditions of the intestine, such as Crohn's ...

In a series of 19 examples of benign stricture of the colon in patients with chronic ulcerative colitis insufficient fibrosis was found in the resected specimens to account for the narrowing.

Colon pain can feel like gas, bloating, or stomach pain. You may also feel tired, constipated, or have diarrhea. Various gastrointestinal disorders can cause colon pain. The colon is part of the large ...