Woman who had agonizing stomach pain and a bloated belly had a twisted colon, or sigmoid volvulus. Doctors had to untwist it and remove part of her colon.

The stool that is eliminated through the stoma has passed through the ascending colon, so it tends to be liquid or ...

He joined the faculty of the UAB Department of Surgery in January 2025. Nationwide outcomes after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced sigmoid colon cancer - A propensity score-matched ...

We recorded 644 patients with obstruction of any type, which was managed non-conservatively (with surgery alone or colonoscopy ... it is only during the last years that colon stenting has become ...

The sigmoid colon — the part of the large intestine ... so Cunningham performed a follow-up surgery two days later and removed about 14 inches of her colon to shorten and tighten it.