A 66-year-old man with a history of metastatic rectal carcinoma was admitted due to fecaluria, increasing constipation, and abdominal pain. A computed tomographic (CT) scan with contrast enema showed ...

Colostomy surgery is a procedure where the colon or large intestine is diverted to an artificial opening on the lower section of the wall of the abdomen so that it can expel out fecal matter to the ...

June 9 (UPI) --Steroid-sparing treatments can prevent young people with Crohn's disease from developing perianal fistulas, an abnormal opening through the wall of the intestine near the rectum, ...

THE morbidity associated with the surgical treatment of diverticulitis remains high. In the experience of the Lahey Clinic some complication has developed in 30 per cent of the patients with ...

Enterovesical fistula is a rare disease. The standard treatment of colovesical fistula is removal of the fistula, suture of the bladder wall, and colic resection with or without temporary colostomy.

A fistula is a connection between two adjacent organs that is not supposed to be there, and they can develop in a multitude of areas around the body. For women, though, it’s the reproductive organs we ...

Involuntary leakage of urine is not something anyone would want but for thousands of women, fistula is a harsh reality. Fistula is a medical condition caused when a woman endures prolonged obstructed ...

Anal fistula is the medical term for an infected tunnel that develops between the skin and anus. Most anal fistulas are the result of an infection that starts in an anal gland located midway in the ...

A dissolvable plug delivered stem cell therapy with few side effects in patients with single tract perianal fistulas, researchers discovered. A dissolvable plug delivered stem cell therapy with few ...