DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 75 and have not been able to eat beef or dairy products since my mid-20s. A colonoscopy revealed that I ...

Colorectal cancer — which includes cancer of the colon and of the rectum — is considered early onset when diagnosed in people under the age of 50. While the majority of diagnoses are still among ...

PURPOSE: To investigate the deposition of collagen in the colon wall of patients with sigmoid diverticulitis. METHODS: Samples of sigmoid tissue from 15 patients (disease group), seven men and eight ...

A colovesical fistula is the most common type of fistula associated with diverticular disease of the colon. Diverticular disease accounts for 65-75% of vesicoenteric fistulae. We present a case of a ...

Among patients with colonic diverticular disease, eosinophil and lymphocyte counts were increased in the submucosa at the diverticulum base of those undergoing emergency resection, and lymphocyte ...

Q: I was diagnosed with diverticulitis, which caused a bowel perforation. I had a sigmoidectomy, no problem, and a resection. Now I'm dealing with constant and urgent diarrhea, as well as some ...

Dear Doctors: I was diagnosed with diverticulitis, which caused a bowel perforation. I had a sigmoidectomy, no problem, and a resection. Now I’m dealing with constant and urgent diarrhea, as well as ...

Dear Doctors: I was diagnosed with diverticulitis, which caused a bowel perforation. I had a sigmoidectomy, no problem, and a resection. Now I'm dealing with constant and urgent diarrhea, as well as ...

Every year, doctors diagnose more than 107,000 cases of colorectal cancer. While survival rates have improved, it's still the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in men and women combined. Knowing ...

An 80-year-old man presented with progressive lower left-quadrant abdominal pain. Imaging studies identified a mass adjacent to the sigmoid colon, with features suggestive of an abscess, although no ...