As a blood vessel, the inferior mesenteric vein (IMV) drains blood away from the descending colon, rectum, and sigmoid, which are all parts of the large intestine. The IMV branches off the portal vein ...

THE use of translumbar aortography is sufficiently widespread so that a considerable literature has appeared in which indications, technic and complications have been thoroughly discussed. It is ...

Clinical presentation is nonspecific in most cases and can be characterized by an initial discrepancy between severe abdominal pain and minimal clinical findings. In general, patients with AMI have an ...

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Prognostic implications of tumor sidedness in colorectal cancer patients in South Dakota, 2006-2015. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2020 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract ...

Mesenteric ischemia refers to a group of disorders marked by decreased blood supply to the bowel due to blockage or narrowing of the blood vessels that supply them. It can occur suddenly without ...

Tumor location, tumor size, and T stage associated with patients with rectal cancer who have inferior mesenteric artery lymph node metastases. The new review aimed to study the clinical and ...

The impact of hepatic fiblosis on the incidence of liver metastasis from colorectal cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract does not ...

A woman with known Crohn's disease and a previous partial resection of her small intestine presented with a poor appetite, weight loss, diarrhea and malnutrition. She was an ex-smoker and was taking ...

The most common place for blood clots to form is in the lower leg due to decelerating blood flow to the lower limbs. Sometimes, however, a blood clot may form in the veins leading to the stomach. This ...