The spring meeting of the Irish Society for Gastroenterology highlighted research into current clinical practices – while ...

A new means of prostate cancer screening could emerge as an alternative to the PSA test, which has long been the first-line option. Using machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence ...

All four cases had full splenic flexure mobilization. Routine closure of the mesenteric ... such as diverticular disease and cancer, among others. 1 The laparoscopic approach has equivalent results in ...

Splenic-flexure syndrome is a chronic disorder that may be caused by gas trapped at bends (flexures) in the colon. Crohn's disease, colon cancer, or any disease that causes intestinal obstruction, may ...

This study aimed to use artificial intelligence (AI) applied in the Victorian Cancer Registry (VCR), a population-based ... OR retrosigmoid junction OR rectum NOS OR sigmoid colon OR splenic flexure ...

Before a stage 4 colon cancer diagnosis, a young mother dismissed early symptoms ... she had encountered a large tumor nearly blocking my entire colon at the splenic flexure, the sharp bend between ...

Screening for colorectal cancer has been proven effective in reducing the burden ... The proximal colon was considered to include the splenic flexure and all segments proximal to it, and the distal ...

left-sided colitis extends up to the splenic flexure and extensive colitis extends beyond the splenic flexure (Figure 4-1). Pancolitis refers to contiguous inflammation affecting the entire colon.

Background: Colorectal cancer is among the most common cancers in the world, and splenic flexure colon cancer accounts for about 2-5% of them. There is still no consensus on the surgical treatment of ...

A colonoscopy that identified colorectal cancer or an advanced precancerous ... ascending colon, hepatic flexure, transverse colon, splenic flexure, any part described by the phrase “right ...

Splenic flexure syndrome is a non-life-threatening digestive system disorder associated with upper left abdominal pain and a sensation of fullness and swelling in the belly. Considered by some to ...

In the breast cancer world, alopecia is the way you ... of a right-sided tumor is one that is proximal to the splenic flexure, these tumors are relatively refractory to first-line therapy with ...