A 42-year-old man with a history of Crohn disease presented to the gastroenterology clinic to establish care. He reported that he was diagnosed with Crohn disease via colonoscopy 8 years ago, preceded ...

A 44-year-old woman was referred to her local hospital due to occult blood in the stool that had been detected by screening examination. Colonoscopic examination at that time indicated a submucosal ...

CLINICAL findings and laboratory tests frequently fail to indicate accurately the pathologic status of the gall bladder in acute cholecystitis. Gangrene with incipient or actual perforation may exist ...

Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers affecting both women and men; it kills approximately 50% of patients and this number has been almost unchanged for 20 years. Gene expression arrays ...

Caecal cancer and ascending colon cancer had slower rates of metastasis to main nodes compared with transverse colon cancer. Routine prophylactic extended lymphadenectomy for the superior mesenteric ...

A 56-year-old woman presents to the hospital after receiving positive findings on a fecal occult blood test (FOBT). She has no history of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). On questioning, she says ...