Colon pain can feel like gas, bloating, or stomach pain. You may also feel tired, constipated, or have diarrhea. Various gastrointestinal disorders can cause colon pain. The colon is part of the large ...

The sigmoid colon is the last section of the bowel — the part that attaches to the rectum. It pushes feces along the bowel tract. It’s about a foot and a half long (around 40 centimeters) and is ...

Americans are most likely to develop diverticula in the sigmoid colon, or the lower section of the large intestine that is closest to the rectum. As a result, the sigmoid colon also happens to be the ...

Out of the blue a few days before Christmas, Beth Grenham started experiencing agonizing stomach pain. It was worse than what she went through while giving birth without anesthesia, she says, and so ...

A redundant or tortuous colon is an abnormally long colon that cannot fit inside the body without looping or twisting. There is no obvious cause, but it can lead to complications and gastrointestinal ...

This operation removes a diseased section of the rectum and sigmoid colon. Doctors use it to treat the following conditions: Cancers of the colon and rectum Some types of noncancerous growths in the ...

What Is a Laparoscopic Abdominoperineal Resection? It’s an operation in which a surgeon removes your anus, rectum, and sigmoid colon through small cuts in your belly. You may need this operation if ...

Buenos Aires, Argentina: President Cristina Fernandez is suffering from an inflammation of the sigmoid colon, doctors said on Monday, a day after the Argentina leader checked into a hospital after ...

President Cristina Fernandez is suffering from an inflammation of the sigmoid colon, doctors said on Monday, a day after the Argentina leader checked into a hospital after feeling ill. Fernandez is ...

THE purpose of this paper is to advocate a more aggressive attitude toward the surgical treatment of diverticulitis of the colon, which in the past has usually been withheld until after complications ...