Summerville Medical Center recently marked a major milestone in its minimally invasive robotic surgery program, performing ...

For treatment purposes, it is essential to identify the exact location along this long structure, as it influences the type of surgery required ... since the sigmoid colon and rectum lie just ...

In Ireland, 155,000 women are affected by endometriosis – a condition which led to Hollie Barror almost losing her life. Here ...

Cancer is cruel. It doesn’t care that you’re only 37, that you're the mother of a little girl who is your entire world. So Elissa vowed to fight.

A split image showing Milla Booth after surgery and a selfie of her ... this is where the sigmoid colon meets the rectum. A picture showing scars on Milla Booth's abdomen. A picture showing ...

IIB: You have cancer on the inside or outside of other organs near your ovaries, like your rectum and sigmoid colon. Doctors use ... II ovarian cancer is usually surgery to remove the tumor.

People with permanent colostomies whose opening is in the descending or sigmoid portion of the colon are good candidates ... After your colostomy surgery, you will likely speak with a doctor ...

1 Department of Surgery and Oncology, Royal Liverpool University Hospital ... that fistulated into the transvere colon and subsequently impacted in the sigmoid colon. An emergency laparotomy with ...