Bowel resection for colorectal cancer, also called partial colectomy, removes the tumor. To make sure that only healthy tissue is left, the doctor removes a small amount of colon or rectum tissue on ...

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 ...

Few patients have survived the resection of an amount of small bowel that left only 18 to 20 cm. below the ligament of Treitz. 1,2,4,6,8 A major factor may have been the pyloroplasty and vagotomy ...

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Your surgeon removes the cancer from the bowel lining, along with a border of healthy tissue (margin). This is called a local resection. The surgeon uses a flexible tube called a colonoscope to do the ...

Among patients with stage IA non-small cell lung cancer, long-term survival was better with lobectomy or segmentectomy vs.

One option is a primary bowel resection, which removes the diseased section of the colon and reconnects healthy sections so that you can retain normal bowel function. Your surgeon can perform this ...

to compare survival between patients with right-sided and left-sided colon cancers. A total of 77,978 patients who underwent surgical resection for a first primary adenocarcinoma of the colon were ...