Resection is another name for any operation that removes tissue or part of an organ. Bowel resection for colorectal cancer, also called partial colectomy, removes the tumor. To make sure that only ...

Resection is another name for any operation that removes tissue or part of an organ. Bowel resection, also called partial colectomy, removes a diseased or damaged part of the colon or rectum. Bowel ...

A hemicolectomy is when the colon's left or right side is removed. A left hemicolectomy removes the descending colon (located on the left side of the abdomen). When the ascending colon ...

Few patients have survived the resection of an amount of small bowel that left only 18 to 20 cm. below the ligament of Treitz. 1,2,4,6,8 A major factor may have been the pyloroplasty and vagotomy ...

to compare survival between patients with right-sided and left-sided colon cancers. A total of 77,978 patients who underwent surgical resection for a first primary adenocarcinoma of the colon were ...