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 ...

Q: I was diagnosed with diverticulitis, which caused a bowel perforation. I had a sigmoidectomy, no problem, and a resection.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mechanical bowel preparation and oral antibiotics resulted in fewer overall postoperative complications vs.

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 ...