Resection is another name for any operation that removes tissue or part of an organ. Bowel resection, also called partial colectomy, removes a diseased or damaged part of the colon or rectum. Bowel ...

All these patients have an anastomosis between the small bowel and colon after the resection of their growth, and with the tube well down in the small bowel the area of anastomosis can be kept ...

A team at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has performed a successful liver transplant in a patient with terminal colorectal cancer. The procedure was made possible through Northwestern’s new ...

Read at the annual meeting of the New England Surgical Society, Portland, Maine, September 11, 1931.

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, where health experts, patients and survivors are raising awareness and urging ...

The Kentucky Cancer Program used an inflatable colon to educate and bring awareness to colon cancer Thursday at Baptist ...

your surgeon might just remove the cancer from the bowel lining, along with a border of healthy tissue. This is called a local resection. Find out about a local resection for colon cancer For larger ...

Peck et al. collected data from 1,035 elective colon resections performed by 15 general surgeons at a community hospital in Portland, Oregon over a 10-year period. [18] Postoperative infection ...

Treatment with thermal ablation was noninferior to surgical resection in small-size colorectal liver metastases, according to ...

Patients with jejunostomy after extensive small-bowel resection have major problems with water, sodium and magnesium depletion. They rapidly become dehydrated if appropriate treatment is not given.