Intestinal contents build up behind the abnormal segment of colon, swelling the bowel and abdomen. Hirschsprung's disease causes about 25 percent of all newborn intestinal blockages, but is also ...

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 ...

the descending colon and the sigmoid colon. Because it only involves the last few segments of your colon, a sigmoidoscopy doesn’t require as much preparation as a colonoscopy. “Unlike a ...

“The rectum is different than the sigmoid colon,” she explains. “Each of these regions has a somewhat different biology and predilection to tumor formation.” Alexandrov and Sears agree ...

Background: Since 1990 it was proposed that distal and proximal location of colon cancer might follow different biological, epidemiology, pathology and prognosis, probably due to embryologic different ...

Results: Over a 3.5-year period, 10,124 endoscopic procedures of the colon (8,987 colonoscopies and 1,137 flexible sigmoidoscopies) were performed. There were 15 colonic perforations (0.15%).

There is minimal abdominal tenderness on palpation and no peritoneal signs. Abdominal radiograph shows signs of colonic dilatation, especially marked in the cecum and ascending colon, but no ...

Legendary pro wrestling commentator Jim Ross has been diagnosed with colon cancer. The 73-year-old WWE Hall of Famer, who has been with All Elite Wrestling since 2019, wrote in a post on X on May ...

Diagnosed this week with colon cancer.Surgery being scheduled in the next week or two.I appreciate your concern and support.🙗 Jim Ross (@JRsBBQ) May 15, 2025 ...

In 1960, President William V.S. Tubman, through an Act of the Legislature, declared May 14 as National Unification Day, a laudable effort to bridge the divide between descendants of Liberia's ...

All variables in the Petersen series were reported. In contrast, in the Yorkshire data, peritoneal involvement was not reported in 10.2% of colon and 13.9% of rectal cases, vascular invasion in 9.0% ...