A 42-year-old man with a history of Crohn disease presented to the gastroenterology clinic to establish care. He reported that he was diagnosed with Crohn disease via colonoscopy 8 years ago, preceded ...

CLINICAL findings and laboratory tests frequently fail to indicate accurately the pathologic status of the gall bladder in acute cholecystitis. Gangrene with incipient or actual perforation may exist ...

Caecal cancer and ascending colon cancer had slower rates of metastasis to main nodes compared with transverse colon cancer. Routine prophylactic extended lymphadenectomy for the superior mesenteric ...

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers affecting both women and men; it kills approximately 50% of patients and this number has been almost unchanged for 20 years. Gene expression arrays ...

October 29, 2010 (San Antonio, Texas) — The use of a retroflexion technique in the proximal colon during colonoscopy improves the yield of polyps and the miss rate associated with lesions on the ...