Sleeve gastrectomy is a common bariatric surgery in which most of the gastric corpus is removed. Here, the authors show the adaptation of the gastric mucosa to surgery in patients, and how it ...

1Children’s Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Hangzhou, China. 2Department of Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, ...

Epigastric pain refers to pain or discomfort below the ribs in your upper abdomen area. Causes range from acute digestive issues like acid reflux to chronic conditions such as esophagitis ...

The biceps tendon is also important in its contribution to shoulder stability. There are two proximal biceps tendon attachments at the shoulder joint, and a single distal biceps tendon at the elbow.

The removal of part or all of the stomach is called a gastrectomy. A gastrectomy is done for various reasons, including to treat stomach cancer, peptic ulcers, or for obesity. People can go on to live ...

Recently, it has been demonstrated that the high-risk gastritis stages (OLGA stages III and IV) feature mostly Type II and III IM, which incorporates the prognostic message obtainable from ...

The SEER database tracks 5-year relative survival rates for stomach cancer (also known as gastric cancer) in the United States, based on how far the cancer has spread. The SEER database, however, does ...