ORLANDO, Fla. — Partial colectomy may be a viable treatment for certain patients with colorectal cancer and ulcerative colitis, according to data presented at Digestive Disease Week. Recurrent CRC was ...

What is the appropriate work-up for chronic functional constipation, and how successful is partial colectomy in patients whose very-slow-transit constipation is "resistant" to routine treatment?

Individuals with IBD undergoing colectomy may benefit from surveillance for kidney function. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) undergoing colectomy have higher rates of acute kidney ...

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 ...

Boston-based Brigham & Women’s Hospital researchers found seven types of emergency general surgeries accounted for 80.2 percent of inpatient costs in the United States, according to Medscape ...

i was recently operated for colorectal cancer and was done partial colectomy and i am abou to start chemotherapy. i am 36years old.what diet programme would you recommend?i had anaemia prior to ...

Genome-wide association study for germline prognostic markers in colorectal cancer. Use of a prognostic (prog) gene index and nodal status to identify a subset of stage II and III colon cancer ...

Seven types of emergency general surgeries (EGSs) account for the vast majority of all EGSs (80.0%), deaths (80.3%), complications (78.9%), and inpatient costs (80.2%), according to a retrospective ...

Total or partial colectomy is often necessary at some stage for patients with IBD. Small, short-term studies have reported that mortality after elective colectomy is low, but large, longer-term ...

THE treatment of ulcerative colitis is primarily medical. Experience has shown, however, that at least 25 per cent of patients with ulcerative colitis require surgical intervention, 1,2 to preserve ...