Results: Over a 3.5-year period, 10,124 endoscopic procedures of the colon (8,987 colonoscopies and 1,137 flexible sigmoidoscopies) were performed. There were 15 colonic perforations (0.15%).

Conclusions: Endoscopic mucosal resection using 0.13% HA to colon polyps of less than 20 mm diameter is more effective than NS for complete resection and maintenance of mucosal elevation.

She was later an Air Force officer. By Clay Risen Nancy Leftenant-Colon, a granddaughter of enslaved people who in 1948 became the first Black nurse to serve in the regular U.S. armed forces ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This late 1940’s photo provided by the US Air Force Historical Support Office shows retired U.S. Army ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, died Jan. 8. Here, an American flag is presented to Leftenant-Colon ...

We obtained sigmoid colon cancer tissue from the patient who underwent palliative sigmoid colon resection. We washed the sample with ... cultured the sigmoid colon cancer organoid on the day of ...

This surgery is for small, early stage colon cancers. Your surgeon removes the cancer from the bowel lining, along with a border of healthy tissue (margin). This is called a local resection. The ...

This section is about surgery for cancer that starts in the large bowel (colon cancer) that hasn't spread to another part of the body. Local resection is for small, early stage colon cancers. Your ...

As a medical student, do you ever wonder what it’s like to specialize in colon and rectal surgery? Meet AMA member Anne Mongiu, MD, a colon and rectal surgeon and a featured physician in the AMA’s ...

Meanwhile, cancer that occurred in the colon extending from the splenic flexure to the sigmoid colon was considered left-sided colon cancer. After surgery, patients were ... and palliative resection ...

Colon Cancer Surgery - What to Expect. Johns Hopkins Medicine. About Your Colon Resection Surgery. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Tsujinaka S, Konishi F. Drain vs No Drain After Colorectal ...