A new report confirms earlier research that colon perforation in multiple myeloma is associated with corticosteroids, though the exact cause of the apparent link is not known. Colon perforation in ...

Colonoscopy is a safe and effective procedure, but it is also an inevitably invasive one. Laparoscopic repair of colonoscopic perforations has been reported to be a safe and effective treatment. We ...

Between September 2004 and July 2006, 10 patients were treated with MSC for toxic tissue damage (Table 1). Follow-up was 1 October 2006. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee at Huddinge ...

It’s the life-saving screening test that 50-somethings dread. A colonoscopy can detect polyps in the colon, but in less than one in every 1,000 cases, there is a serious side effect: the scope pierces ...

Spontaneous perforation of the colon is defined as a sudden perforation of the normal colon without any diseases such as tumor external injury. It is rare, often misdiagnosed and has a high mortality ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Matthew Perry was hospitalized for a gastrointestinal perforation this week. Here’s what that means. (Getty Images). Matthew Perry ...

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice found a gynecologist surgeon negligent for failing to detect and repair a bowel perforation during a 2015 laparoscopic surgery, resulting in life-threatening ...

PERFORATION of the gastrointestinal tract in the newborn infant is a major catastrophe that causes death in over three fourths of the babies, despite the availability of modern diagnostic and ...

Köhlmeier–Degos (KD) disease, also known as atrophic papulosis, is a rare obliterative vasculopathy with both a benign, cutaneous variant and a highly fatal, malignant, multi-system variant that most ...