Minimally invasive, laparoscopically assisted surgery was first considered in 1990 for patients undergoing colectomy for cancer. Concern that this approach would compromise survival by failing to ...

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?

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A sustained period of intraoperative hypothermia in patients who underwent segmental colectomy was not ...

Colon cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer if you don’t count skin cancers. If the cancer hasn’t spread, then one of the possible treatments is a sigmoid colectomy. That may be a ...

For patients with colon cancer, laparoscopic colectomy has been associated with early recovery and quality-of-life benefits compared with open colectomy; however, long-term outcome data on tumor ...

A very large, multistate analysis of surgical-site infection (SSI) rates using administrative data confirms the fear that the considerable variation in SSI risk by operative procedure and hospital ...