Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mean quality of life score was nearly 10 points higher in surgery vs. conservative group at 1 year. Within 2 ...

The clinicopathological characteristics of the patients in the two groups are shown in Table 1. The mean sizes of the lesions were 27.1 mm in the ESD group and 25.0 mm in the EMR group. The incidence ...

Portneuf Medical Center is excited to introduce the next generation in robotic surgery, the da Vinci Xi. In fact, the first procedure with our new robot took place on April 3, 2019; we performed a ...

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 ...

Long-term severe complications were similar with laparoscopic lavage and primary resection in perforated purulent diverticulitis patients, researchers reported, although recurrence was more frequent ...

The sigmoid colon is the last section of the bowel — the part that attaches to the rectum. It pushes feces along the bowel tract. It’s about a foot and a half long (around 40 centimeters) and is ...