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 ...

Kingwood Medical Center, an HCA Affiliated Hospital, announced its chief of staff, Kent Kossoy, M.D. has successfully performed the first colon resection da Vinci surgery to treat colon cancer in the ...

Surgical techniques Colorectal surgery may employ many different techniques, such as colectomy, stricture-plasty, lateral internal sphincterotomy, ligation, transanal endoscopic microsurgery, ...

Low muscle quality and quantity are both predictive of poor outcomes in colon resection surgery, according to a new study published in JAMA Surgery. Carla Prado, a researcher in the University of ...

Three physicians recently completed the first robotic-assisted colon resection surgeries at Martinsburg, W.Va.-based Berkeley Medical Center. 1. Jason Turner, MD, Robert Cicchino, DO, and Zachary ...

The researchers behind a new Cancer Research UK-funded clinical trial have suggested that giving colon cancer patients chemotherapy before surgery can reduce the risk of disease recurrence by more ...

New research published in JAMA Surgery reports a new way to prepare for surgery: sit-ups. According to the findings from a team of scientists at the University of Alberta, low muscle quality and ...

Doctors at the All India Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi on Friday announced a successful surgery where they removed a ...