Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center of Chicago and other defendants were hit with a wrongful death lawsuit on Dec. 12 in Illinois Circuit Court for Cook County. The suit was brought by Cogan & Power ...

THE diagnosis of Hirschsprung's disease is not always easy. The patient presenting a typical history of chronic constipation, with physical signs of a distended abdomen and an empty rectal ampulla, ...

A sigmoid septum occurs when part of the heart muscle expands and blocks a pathway blood uses to leave the heart’s left side. It often does not cause symptoms and has links to aging. The heart ...

Distal Spread of Carcinoma of the Rectosigmoid. In 1952 Cole 10 reported the recurrence of carcinoma in the suture line after adequate anterior resection of the rectum in 10 per cent of a series of 55 ...

1 Department of Digestive Surgery, University Hospital Center of Brazzaville, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. 2 Faculty of Health Sciences, Marien Ngouabi University, Brazzaville, Republic of the ...

1 General Surgery Department of the Fousseyni DAOU Hospital, Kayes, Mali. 2 National Center for Scientific Research and Technology (CNRST), Bamako, Mali. 3 Pediatric Surgery Department of the ...

With this latest fresh capital infusion, Sequoia's overall investment in the startup is around $19.3 million.(iStock) American venture capital firm, Sequoia Capital has doubled its investment in data ...

Sigmoid, a startup helping firms in the U.S., U.K. and Europe comb through their data and derive better insights from it, has raised $12 million in a new financing round following a strong year of ...

Internal hernias are formed by the protrusion of internal organs through an aperture formed congenitally or postoperatively. Internal hernias are most commonly associated with the small intestine. A ...

A colostomy is a common surgical procedure that healthcare professionals perform when you’re unable to pass stools due to conditions, like cancer, Crohn’s disease, or diverticulitis (1). It involves ...

Background and Aim: We evaluated the clinical features of neonatal Hirschsprung's disease (HD)-associated bowel perforation (perforated HD) and investigated risk factors related to it. Methods: We ...