Healthy colon tissue will be attached back together, called an anastomosis. Or, a stoma will be created for a colostomy or an ...

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 ...

that type of colostomy should not be done unless it's being done to protect the anastomosis, which means where they are putting back the two pieces of bowel, so they are protecting that with a ...

Our providers at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center have unique expertise in some of the newest, most innovative, minimally invasive surgical procedures ...