The NHS doesn’t offer bowel screening until we’re 50. Yet with cancer rates rising, it may be worth forking out for a private ...

It found that certain indicators, such as perivisceral fat stranding and the distension of intestinal loops, were highly predictive of colonic perforations. This information can assist surgeons in ...

Abdominal ultrasound, performed in several cases, generally demonstrated dilated bowel loops. Remarkably ... necrotic, non-viable, or perforated segments of the bowel. Postoperative outcomes were ...

The detection of a localised fluid formation or of echogenic material between the bowel loops, however, is highly suspicious of bowel perforation.23 The detection of an intraperitoneal mass with a ...

Loops of small intestine may push out ... Those with more complex problems – like a hole in the intestine (perforation) – will need surgery to get the meconium out and to fix the other intestinal ...

A perforated bowel, or intestinal perforation, occurs when a hole forms in the wall of the small intestine or colon (large intestine). This allows the bowel's contents to leak into the abdominal ...

None occurred during emergency endoscopy. All the perforations were identified during or shortly after the procedure; extra-intestinal tissue was observed during the procedure in 13 cases (87% ...

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice found a gynecologist surgeon negligent for failing to detect and repair a bowel perforation during a 2015 laparoscopic surgery, resulting in life-threatening ...

A woman in her 80s has received an apology in the High Court for the perforation of her throat during a gastroscopic procedure. Sligo University Hospital apologised and acknowledged the perforation ...