A bowel resection is a surgery to remove any part of the bowel. This includes the small intestine, large intestine, or rectum. Doctors use it to treat diseases and blockages of the large intestine ...

Kingwood Medical Center, an HCA Affiliated Hospital, announced its chief of staff, Kent Kossoy, M.D. has successfully performed the first colon resection da Vinci surgery to treat colon cancer in the ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Intuitive (NASDAQ: ISRG), a global technology leader in minimally invasive care and the pioneer of robotic-assisted surgery, announced today that ...

If you’ve been diagnosed with colorectal cancer, or another condition that affects the colon, you may need a colon resection. Colon resection surgery, also referred to as a colectomy, is a surgical ...

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 ...

Caecal cancer and ascending colon cancer had slower rates of metastasis to main nodes compared with transverse colon cancer. Routine prophylactic extended lymphadenectomy for the superior mesenteric ...

Your small intestines are very important for maintaining good digestive health. Also called the small bowel, they absorb nutrients and fluid that you eat or drink. They also deliver waste products to ...

A large bowel resection is also known as a colectomy.The goal of this surgery is to remove diseased sections of your large bowel. The large bowel is also known as the large intestine or the colon.