Although rectal cancer is a life-threatening disease, it is highly curable in its early stages. Depending on the location and state of the cancer, surgery may be required. To avoid life-altering ...

The cecum was greatly distended and tense ... The patient was still well and free of subjective or objective signs of disease in September, 1946. Another patient was found to have a growth ...

When it comes to health conditions, your body often takes sides. In fact, there are many illnesses that predominantly affect one side of the body - and that's not simply because we favour one side.

Proctitis: The inflammation the disease causes affects the last part of the large intestine, the rectum. Proctosigmoiditis: This affects the last section of the colon (sigmoid colon) and the rectum.

In many cases, ulcerative colitis begins in the rectum or sigmoid colon and spreads up through the colon as the disease progresses. In Crohn's disease, the inflammation may occur in patches in one or ...

Surgery professor Bill Parker, co-author for this study, claims that this reservoir is possibly there for a specific purpose: to help recover in the case of a sudden depletion of good bacteria as it ...

The extra hay generates additional warmth to the horse through the heat produced in the hindgut (cecum and colon ... One health concern in the winter is protection against infectious diseases even ...

On evaluation, he was diagnosed with gallstone disease and adenomyomatosis of the gallbladder ... Imaging suggested gallstone ileus with a stone impacted in the sigmoid colon. Intraoperative findings ...

The scale rates three sections of the colon, right (cecum and ascending colon), mid-colon (transverse and descending) and rectosigmoid, on a five-point scale (0–4). Total score (0–14 ...

Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has for years called attention to what he considers an “epidemic” of chronic disease that has left America’s children ...