The colitis involved the entire colon and rectum, with the exception of three cases in which only the left side of the colon was involved. The site of the stricture was either the sigmoid colon or ...

Over a 3.5-year period, 10,124 endoscopic procedures of the colon (8,987 colonoscopies and 1,137 flexible sigmoidoscopies) were performed. Patients had an average age of 59 years (SD = 14.5, range ...

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 ...

What is the natural history of ischemic colitis? At least 80% of patientshave a favorable outcome with no longer-term sequelae. In many of thesepatients, symptoms resolve in 2-3 days and the colon ...

Colon cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer if you don’t count skin cancers. If the cancer hasn’t spread, then one of the possible treatments is a sigmoid colectomy. That may be a ...

“The stricture was big enough or tight enough that they had to use a pediatric scope. ... But the tumor only appeared to be in the sigmoid colon. It seemed the rest of his colon was healthy.

The two x-ray films reproduced show long strictures of the colon, a point perhaps of some importance. ... rectosigmoid and sigmoid such as the authors describe. . . .

Some people have a sigmoid colon that’s a bit longer than usual, which is a normal variation in human anatomy, she adds. “I was always told I had a long colon,” Grenham recalls.

On Sunday evening, Pope Francis underwent surgery for a colon condition called “symptomatic stenotic diverticulitis.” The elective surgery, performed at the Gemelli hospital in Rome, lasted ...

Mrs. Mississippi Plus America pageant winner Bryce Ramsey was diagnosed with Stage 3 colon cancer at 33. ... The exam revealed that she had a 5-centimeter polyp in her sigmoid colon, ...

A 37-year-old gentleman presented to the emergency room with colicky abdominal pain in the upper and lower abdomen, constipation, nausea and vomiting. The pain was not controlled, even on narcotics.

Endometriosis involving the mucosa of the intestines is rare, but may lead to diagnostic pitfalls. We reviewed 15 cases (seven biopsies and eight resections) from 14 patients. The patients’ mean ...