Back to Healio Laparoscopic bowel resection improved pelvic pain and quality of life in women with rectosigmoid endometriosis did not respond to hormone therapy, according to new research.

Distal Spread of Carcinoma of the Rectosigmoid. In 1952 Cole 10 reported the recurrence of carcinoma in the suture line after adequate anterior resection of the rectum in 10 per cent of a series ...

Rectal resection for deeply infiltrating endometriosis can be performed with limited morbidity, say the authors of an Australian study. Reporting their surgical experience over a 9-year period ...

Stapled transanal rectal resection is a new surgical technique for obstructed defecation syndrome. A research group in China investigated the safety and efficacy of the novel procedure and ...

In older surgical series, as many as two thirds of patients undergoing surgical resection for rectal cancer exhibited postoperative sexual dysfunction. In recent years there has been increasing ...

The study cohort included 30% stage II and 70% stage III mid- to low rectal cancers. Of the 30 patients receiving chemotherapy alone, all had complete R0 resection and eight (27%) achieved a ...