The bowel resection left me with a scar on my abdomen. So I really worried about intimacy: What would happen when a guy saw it? But then I realized I have to change my attitude.

Stricturoplasty is a procedure to widen any area of the bowel that has narrowed due to the formation of scar tissue where there has been long-term inflammation, irritation, ulcers, or fistulas. Small ...

Patients with cancer of the colon or rectum were recruited from 27 UK centers between July 1996 and July 2002 and were randomized 2:1 to undergo either open or laparoscopic bowel surgery.

They performed a retrospective analysis of 25,407 patients in the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) registry who underwent elective surgical resection for colon cancer from 2010 to 2015 ...

What you should know: 1. Jason Turner, MD, Robert Cicchino, DO, and Zachary Ewart, MD, are the physicians who debuted robotic-assisted colon resection surgery at the hospital. 2. Colon resection ...