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 ...

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 ...

A male student was hospitalized due to severe abdominal pain, where doctors discovered a foreign object in his rectum: an 18 cm long metal pestle lodged deep inside his body.

Earlier this year, a digestive disorder that many Filipinos had rarely heard of suddenly captured national attention when it was widely reported by news organizations. The condition, called ...

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 ...

Center for Weight Loss Surgery explains the differences between duodenal switch and gastric sleeve surgeries for weight loss.

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 ...

When parts of the small intestine are diseased or die, the treatment can involve surgically removing the affected tissue. Although lifesaving, the procedure - referred to as a radical small bowel ...

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 ...

The small intestine is located between the stomach and the large intestine and is composed of the duodenum, jejunum and ileum. The small intestine is the site of chemical digestion and absorption of ...