are advised to have resection of the excess sigmoid. Few, however, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, have availed themselves of this opportunity. Primary resection, as advocated recently ...

in 1 as an emergency for complete obstruction of the sigmoid and in 1 as a preliminary operation to resection of the transverse colon. In each case the colon was widely opened and sutured by the ...

Emergency colonoscopy revealed need for a resection; 'I'm very, very blessed' Beth Grenham (left) is grateful for the care ...

Although rectal cancer is a life-threatening disease, it is highly curable in its early stages. Depending on the location and state of the cancer, surgery may be required. To avoid life-altering ...

🏆 A Comparative Study on Handwritten Digits Recognition using Classifiers like K-Nearest Neighbours (K-NN), Multiclass Perceptron/Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) ...

a). Midgut normal rotation. Note the foregut is coloured green, midgut as yellow and hind gut is having red color. b). Midgut malrotation with all of the small bowel on the right side, ileocecal ...

The sigmoid colon was initially mobilized, the inferior mesenteric artery was ligated at its ... tumor size, distance from the anal verge, distal resection margin length, pathological T stage, ...

Ulcerative colitis tends to be continuous throughout the inflamed areas. In many cases, ulcerative colitis begins in the rectum or sigmoid colon and spreads up through the colon as the disease ...

Colon cancer usually doesn’t cause symptoms in the early stages. As the disease progresses, you may experience abdominal pain, rectal bleeding, and changes in the size and shape of your stool.

The ability to detect serrated polyps by fecal blood testing, computed tomographic (CT) colonography and colonoscopy is limited. Serrated polyps are less likely than adenomas to bleed, so fecal ...