He adds that “90 percent of bowel endometriosis cases involve the pelvic portion of large intestine (the rectum and the sigmoid colon); the other 10 percent involve the appendix and ileum (final ...

People who suffer from colitis experience continuous inflammation that starts at the sigmoid colon (the lower part of their colon), and are at a higher risk for colorectal cancer. People with UC ...

The disease runs in my family, but I'm living proof that survival rates are improving for cancer patients, thanks to medical ...

PURPOSE: To investigate the deposition of collagen in the colon wall of patients with sigmoid diverticulitis. METHODS: Samples of sigmoid tissue from 15 patients (disease group), seven men and eight ...

But patients should feel comfortable asking their doctors if a CT scan is absolutely needed and whether another technology that does not use radiation could be used instead. The take-home message ...

In a statement of claim filed at the Manitoba Court of King's Bench on May 27, the woman claims the defendants didn't properly interpret the results of a computed tomography (CT) scan ordered to ...

The first surgery was called an high anterior resection, which saw all of her sigmoid colon and the top part ... getting bad scan results — like the poor things really like not come into my ...

Recent evidence suggests that serrated polyps with features of larger size, sessile serrated polyp histology, cytologic dysplasia and location in the proximal colon may have a higher risk of ...

Unlike X-rays or computed tomography (CT scans), MRI does not use ionizing radiation ... such as recite the Pledge of Allegiance, while the scan is being done. By pinpointing the exact location of the ...