As the gold standard for colon cancer, colonoscopies are often the subject of malpractice cases for gastroenterologists, according to a blog post from law firm Miller & Zois. Here are five things to ...

Researchers have conducted a study to determine an appropriate time span for measuring and reporting rates of perforation and bleeding requiring a hospital admission after outpatient colonoscopy, ...

An 80-year-old man presented with progressive lower left-quadrant abdominal pain. Imaging studies identified a mass adjacent to the sigmoid colon, with features suggestive of an abscess, although no ...

Efficacy and safety of fruquintinib across different subgroups of patients with previously treated metastatic colorectal cancer: A meta-analysis. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2024 ASCO ...

Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) who experience colon perforation may have similar survival times to those without perforation. Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) may ...

Researchers looked at nearly 1 million colonoscopies performed in Sweden over a 16-year span, including inpatient and outpatient procedures. Rates of bleeding and perforation were found to be lower in ...

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy was associated with lower odds of blood transfusion, colon perforation, and mortality than surgical gastrostomy. The technique was also associated with higher odds ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I’m a very active 79-year-old woman who had a colonoscopy three months ago and is still suffering with pain on my right side. I have had a CT scan and an ultrasound, and they say there ...