The sphincter of Oddi is a muscular valve in the digestive tract that opens and closes. It allows digestive juices, bile, and pancreatic juice to flow properly through the ducts from the liver and ...

Study design: Literature review of current treatment options for detrusor–sphincter dyssynergia (DSD) in spinal cord injury. Objectives: To review the outcomes and complications associated with ...

Women who sustain obstetric anal sphincter injuries often experience burdensome short- and long-term effects that can include pain, faecal and/or urinary incontinence and sexual dysfunction. Health ...

Impact of dose intensity of XELOX and MFOLFOX6 on survival of metastatic colorectal cancer patients: A retrospective analysis at the Jewish General Hospital between 2006 and 2013. This is an ASCO ...

“Urinary incontinence” is the medical term for leaking urine. Research estimates that around 13 million people in the United States experience urinary incontinence, but the exact number varies ...

ORGAN PRESERVATION IS one of the successes of the multidisciplinary management of cancer. Selected soft tissue sarcomas, and breast, head and neck, esophageal, anal, and prostate cancers are ...

What is Artificial Urinary Sphincter? An artificial urinary sphincter is a device that prevents leaking of urine from the urinary bladder. It is placed through surgery in some patients with a ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

Researchers have identified a subset of brain cells in mice that act as the master regulators of urination. Urination requires the coordinated function of two units of the lower urinary tract. The ...