Piecemeal endoscopic mucosal resection (PEMR) for complex colorectal polyps is an established technique with good outcomes compared with traditional surgery Patient preparation and careful lesion ...

While Crohn’s disease, a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), can often be controlled by medication, up to 75 percent of people living with the disease will require surgery at some point in their ...

For the majority of patients with large or difficult to remove colorectal polyps (growths in the colon), the incidence of cancer is actually lower than previously thought, and using more advanced ...

Surgery used to be considered a last-resort treatment option for people with Crohn’s disease, when nothing else was working. That advice is changing. “Doctors who sent people with Crohn’s for surgery ...

A research team from Japan reported a case of a large lipoma, 50 mm in diameter, in the terminal ileum, which was completely removed by a combination of the so-called endoscopic unroofing technique ...

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Symptoms If you have IBD, you can expect times when the disease flares up and causes symptoms and times when your symptoms decrease or disappear for a while. Symptoms range ...

SAN FRANCISCO: As people are living longer, more elderly patients are being diagnosed with age-related colon cancer, making it of increasing concern to the medical community. Another related issue is ...