SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Older patients and those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are at the greatest risk for death, according to the largest series of colectomies performed for ...

In choosing the appropriate surgical option for patients with colon cancer and Lynch syndrome, goals of treatment are to maximize life expectancy while preserving quality of life. This study ...

A 14-year-old girl has said getting a stoma saved her life and was "the best thing I ever did". Imogen from Basingstoke, Hampshire, underwent a subtotal colectomy - where most of the colon is removed ...

What is the appropriate work-up for chronic functional constipation, and how successful is partial colectomy in patients whose very-slow-transit constipation is "resistant" to routine treatment?

Our own observations led us to believe that patients with granulomatous disease of the colon, with or without ileal involvement, did well after total colectomy and ileostomy. In contrast recurrence ...