Jessica Wozniak thought that some of the symptoms of norovirus were lingering. They were signs of Stage 4 colon cancer.

A CT scan after those treatments showed that her liver metastases, were shrinking but another mass in her sigmoid colon appeared to be growing. Her doctors wanted to shrink and reduce most of her ...

Here the authors present the unusual case of an 82-year-old man who developed symptoms and signs of large bowel obstruction due to an untreated gallstone, measuring 7×4.5 cm, that fistulated into the ...

Abdominal examination revealed mild tenderness in the left lower abdomen. The CT scan reported colocolic intussusception extending from proximal to mid-sigmoid colon, with early ischaemic changes. The ...

Upon tests, doctors could not find any issue, but accounting her history, they suggested a ureterosigmoidostomy surgery, where urine is redirected to flow from the kidneys to the sigmoid colon ...

MATERIALS AND METHODS: CT scans of 69 patients with surgically proved sigmoid diverticulitis were retrospectively reviewed and compared with CT findings in 29 patients with surgically proved ...

Hospitals and imaging centers are now required to track and report radiation exposure from CT scans under new Medicare regulations. The rules, which began rolling out in January, come as ...

Smith-Bindman and like-minded colleagues have long pushed for federal policies aimed at improving safety for patients undergoing CT scans. Under new Medicare regulations effective this year, hospitals ...