A 46-year-old female with a history of chronic constipation and episodes of minor rectal bleeding underwent colonoscopy. She was diagnosed with an infrarenal abdominal aorta aneurysm for which ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rectal and left-sided colon cancers are not clearly delineated by location but rather are characterized by a ...

The colon, or large intestine, is where fibers and digested food are turned into stools. It has numerous sections, including the ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon, ...

Japanese golf legend Masashi Ozaki died at 78 after battling stage 4 sigmoid colon cancer. The disease develops in the lower ...

PNEUMATOSIS cystoides intestinalis is a rare condition characterized by the presence of gas-filled cysts involving the intestinal wall and its attachments. It is known under a variety of names: gas ...

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 ...

A redundant or tortuous colon is an abnormally long colon that cannot fit inside the body without looping or twisting. There is no obvious cause, but it can lead to complications and gastrointestinal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A point-of-care intestinal ultrasound effectively assessed endoscopic disease severity through bowel wall ...

Location, location, location! Researchers have found that colorectal patients whose tumor is located on the left side of the colon have better survival prognosis than patients whose tumor is located ...

THE use of translumbar aortography is sufficiently widespread so that a considerable literature has appeared in which indications, technic and complications have been thoroughly discussed. It is ...

PC, a rare condition, is a form of pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis that generally presents late in middle age. It is characterized by the presence of multiple gas-filled cysts within the wall of ...