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 ...

Initial results of the CLASICC trial have recently been presented in the Lancet by Guillou and co-workers. This study aimed to compare the short-term outcomes of laparoscopic resection with those of ...

Inflammation from Crohn’s disease can cause thickening or scar tissue inside your small intestine, which sometimes leads to narrow areas called strictures. A strictureplasty for Crohn’s disease is a ...

Prognostic factors of survival and recurrence after liver transplantation for unresectable colorectal liver metastases: Results from the TransMet trial. A multicenter randomized phase II trial ...

ALTHOUGH the consequences of extensive resection of the small intestine differ in pattern and intensity a syndrome of conditioned malnutrition invariably follows. 1–5 The chief manifestation is ...

Role of LINE-1 methylation status of adjacent normal colonic mucus in the survival of Chinese patients with colon cancer. Results of observational study to determine K-ras mutation rates in 2458 ...