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 ...

Few patients have survived the resection of an amount of small bowel that left only 18 to 20 cm. below the ligament of Treitz. 1,2,4,6,8 A major factor may have been the pyloroplasty and vagotomy ...

Doctors usually treat people with Crohn’s using strictureplasty instead of small bowel resection, if possible, to avoid this type of problem. With a strictureplasty, your intestine stays intact.

In the past, the go-to method for drainage has been open surgery. This involves doing a bowel resection, in which the surgeon removes the damaged part of your small intestine and joins the two ...

Surgery: Bypassing the Small Bowel 3 minute read TIME October 29, 1965 12:00 AM GMT-4 ...

Resection of Mycotic Aneurysm of the Small-Bowel Mesentery Author: Michael M. Lovezzola, M.D. Author Info & Affiliations Published November 27, 1958 N Engl J Med 1958;259: 1076 ...