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 new approach to reduce toxicity and improve quality of life in colon cancer patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This ...

This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2023 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract does not include a full text component.

Tseung Kwan O Hospital has launched a probe into the death of an 85-year-old patient after surgery. According to the ...

A patient who presented to the emergency department with severe, recurrent abdominal pain demonstrated Chilaiditi's sign, a radiographic term for interposition of the hepatic flexure of the colon ...

"Understanding the rates of false-positives and false-negatives in lymph node assessment allows for better-informed surgical decision-making. This contributes to determining the extent of LN ...

Tseung Kwan O Hospital investigating death of 85-year-old patient with transverse colon cancer, who received stoma surgery on February 7 A Hong Kong patient with colon cancer died three weeks after ...

The gut microbiome-the trillions of bacteria and other microbes that inhabit the gastrointestinal tract-drives a process vital for protecting the colon against tissue injury, according to the findings ...

The authors present a 32-year-old male patient with incarceration of a recurrent esophageal hiatal hernia after laparoscopic repair. A life-threatening strangulation of the stomach and the transverse ...