Colon cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer if you don’t count skin cancers. If the cancer hasn’t spread, then one of the possible treatments is a sigmoid colectomy. That may be a ...

What is the appropriate work-up for chronic functional constipation, and how successful is partial colectomy in patients whose very-slow-transit constipation is "resistant" to routine treatment?

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A sustained period of intraoperative hypothermia in patients who underwent segmental colectomy was not ...

THE treatment of ulcerative colitis is primarily medical. Experience has shown, however, that at least 25 per cent of patients with ulcerative colitis require surgical intervention, 1,2 to preserve ...

boxed-textThe Clinical Outcomes of Surgical Therapy Study Group (2004) A comparison of laparoscopically assisted and open colectomy for colon cancer. N Engl J Med 350: 2050–2059. Minimally invasive ...

A very large, multistate analysis of surgical-site infection (SSI) rates using administrative data confirms the fear that the considerable variation in SSI risk by operative procedure and hospital ...