Comparison Between Patients Who had Maximum Activity in the Rectum or Sigmoid Colon and Those Who had This in the Descending Colon or Proximal Colon Inflammatory Activity in the Descending Colon ...

including cecum, ascending, hepatic flexure, and proximal transverse colon. ‡ = including mid to distal transverse, descending, sigmoid, and rectosigmoid colon. § = ratio of the circumference ...

NOS OR descending colon OR hepatic flexure of colon OR overlapping lesion of colon OR retrosigmoid junction OR rectum NOS OR sigmoid colon OR splenic flexure of colon OR transverse colon NOTE.

Children were excluded if they had organic lesions of the rectum or sigmoid colon or congenital anomalies ... reduce the excitability of the descending colon and rectal parasympathetic nerves, ...

Her colon had to be “unkinked” during an emergency colonoscopy, Grenham says, then shortened to prevent it from happening again. The sigmoid colon — the part of the large intestine nearest ...

Woman who had agonizing stomach pain and a bloated belly had a twisted colon, or sigmoid volvulus. Doctors had to untwist it and remove part of her colon.

A diet deficient in calcium was considered the highest risk factor, linked to approximately one in five deaths from colon cancer in the very young. Alcohol consumption was determined as the second ...

Radwah Oda was just 30 when she was diagnosed with colon cancer, an illness that seemed to come out of the blue. But looking back, she’d been experiencing symptoms for about a year without ...

That's when they discovered a "grapefruit-sized" tumor in his colon, he said. Lopez saw the scan and couldn't believe his eyes. Colon cancer? He was so young, healthy, and fit. Stories like Lopez ...