A private hospital here has performed a complex laparoscopic surgery on a woman from Sikkim who had previously undergone unsuccessful surgical attempts and suffered severe intestinal complications.

Perforation made immediate open surgery critical in an exceptionally rare case involving a 22-year-old transgender patient with a self-inserted syringe with an attached needle in his large intestine ...

A 16-year-old girl compulsively ate so much of her own hair that surgeons had to remove a giant, shoe-sized hairball from her stomach. The hairball weighed 500g – the same as a block of butter – and ...

When someone is diagnosed with colorectal cancer—which includes both colon and rectal cancers—many people immediately think "surgery." And it's true that surgery plays a central role in treatment for ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Akron’s Summa Health System is among the first hospitals in Ohio performing a minimally invasive bariatric surgery using small magnets instead of surgery to alter the bowel. The ...

A risky but often lifesaving surgery that removes damaged parts of the small intestine can leave patients facing a new threat: serious liver damage with no available treatment. Now, scientists have ...

Even though POP can cause symptoms, like feeling a fullness in the vagina, pelvic pain or pressure, or bowel or urinary changes, POP isn’t always bothersome, Dr. Horner says. Just 3% to 6% of women ...

Zaverbai Shyamji Nagda, an 87-year-old resident of Diva, Thane district, has undergone laparoscopic excision for a congenital duodenal duplication cyst (DDC) — an extremely rare situation, according ...

Intestinal stem cells are multipotent adult stem cells, which in mammals reside in the base of the crypts of the adult intestine. Intestinal stem cells continuously self-renew by dividing and ...