Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery was found to be more effective in harvesting lymph nodes compared with conventional surgery with similar outcomes. Surgery is the most prevalent treatment for colon ...

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 purpose of this paper is to advocate a more aggressive attitude toward the surgical treatment of diverticulitis of the colon, which in the past has usually been withheld until after complications ...

Q: 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 ...

Modified FOLFOX6 plus bevacizumab followed by FOLFIRI plus bevacizumab beyond first progression in advanced colorectal cancer: CCOG-0801 study. A phase I/II study of biweekly XELIRI plus bevacizumab ...

Read before the Section of Surgery of the Massachusetts Medical Society at its Annual Meeting June 5, 1934. Hunt, Ernest L. — Surgeon-in-Chief, Fairlawn Hospital. For record and address of author see ...

A small study suggests that chewing gum after colon surgery may speed the return of normal bowel function and shorten patients' hospital stays, according to a report in the February issue of Archives ...