A 50-year-old woman with Crohn's disease was taken to surgery for multiple strictures of the terminal ileum causing small bowel obstruction. Proximal to the diseased segment there was another diseased ...

A 20 mL gastric pouch is created with the use of two to three 60 mm linear staplers (Endo GIA, Covidien and Dublin, Ireland). At approximately 40 cm proximal to the ligament of Treitz the jejunum is ...

This article, part 4 in a 6-part series, describes the physiology and functions of the jejunum and ileum, the last two sections of the small intestine, where most absorption of nutrients takes place.

THE small intestine comprises the longest portion of the alimentary canal and yet receives small consideration in the diagnosis of intestinal tumors. The reason is the rarity of neoplasms in the small ...

Feasibility and clinical value of circulating tumor DNA testing in patients with gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma.

Phase II study of GEN-001 in combination with avelumab in patients with PD-L1–positive locally advanced, or metastatic gastric cancer (GC) or gastroesophageal junction cancer (GEJC) who have ...

A 40-year-old woman with a history of Crohn's disease presents with a 3-week history of intermittent abdominal pain, about 8 watery bowel movements a day and weight loss of 8 kg from her baseline ...

The small intestine is a tubular structure within the abdominal cavity that carries the food in continuation with the stomach up to the colon from where the large intestine carries it to the rectum ...

What are small bowel neuroendocrine cancers? Small bowel neuroendocrine cancers are also called small intestine neuroendocrine cancers. They are cancers that start in the neuroendocrine cells of the ...