Resection is another name for any operation that removes tissue or part of an organ. Bowel resection, also called partial colectomy, removes a diseased or damaged part of the colon or rectum. Bowel ...

Since glutamine (Gln) is considered a major fuel for small bowel (SB), extensive SB resection could alter whole body Gln metabolism in vivo. Very few data are available on Gln metabolism in infants.

Oct. 21, 2005 (San Francisco) — Patients hospitalized for small bowel obstruction were likely to require rehospitalization within three years and had an unexpectedly high mortality rate, according to ...

Inflammation from Crohn’s disease can cause thickening or scar tissue inside your small intestine, which sometimes leads to narrow areas called strictures. A strictureplasty for Crohn’s disease is a ...

A phase II trial of atezolizumab and bevacizumab in patients with advanced, progressive neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2020 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

Seven types of emergency general surgeries (EGSs) account for the vast majority of all EGSs (80.0%), deaths (80.3%), complications (78.9%), and inpatient costs (80.2%), according to a retrospective ...