Recently, I operated on a 76-year-old woman for bowel obstruction. At laparotomy, I found a 2.5-cm tumor, 5 cm from the ileocecal valve with no macroscopic metastases or suspicious nodes. This was ...

In managing the complication of tuberculosis (TB), the phenomenon of a paradoxical reaction must be considered when there are ...

Crohn's disease could be missed by ileocolonoscopy if the condition skips the distal ileum or is limited to the mesentary or intramural portion of the bowel wall, but CT enterography can aid detection ...

Background: A 59-year-old female presented with a history of recurrent superficial bladder cancer. Since the initial diagnosis 12 years earlier, she had had 12 recurrences, all treated with ...

The efficacy of cholestyramine as treatment for diarrhea in patients with ileal resection was examined by inpatient and outpatient trials. Ten of 12 patients having less than 100 cm of distal ileum ...

Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) have abnormal concentrations and composition of electrolytes and macromolecules in gastrointestinal secretions. Such alterations could change intestinal surface ...

In a recent article published in Nature, researchers developed an ingestible, single-use device to collect samples from different regions of the human intestine, including the duodenum, jejunum, ileum ...