Caecal volvulus accounts for 30% of all colonic volvulus.1 It occurs due to torsion or hyperflexion of an enlarged, poorly fixed hypermobile caecum. It manifests in two forms: axial rotation of the ...

Caecal volvulus accounts for 30% of all colonic volvulus.1 It occurs due to torsion or hyperflexion of an enlarged, poorly fixed hypermobile caecum. It manifests in two forms: axial rotation of the ...

Abdominal and pelvic CT showed an 8×5 cm localised collection medial and deep to the caecal pole due to a walled off localised traumatic perforation and a 1.5 cm laceration through segment 6 of his ...

Correspondence to Dr Benjamin Easton White, Gastroenterology, Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Winchester SO22 5DG, UK; benjaminwhite{at}doctors.org.uk ...

Background Acute appendicitis is a local intestinal inflammation with unclear origin. The aim was to test whether bacteria in appendicitis differ in composition to bacteria found in caecal biopsies ...

By Pooja Toshniwal Paharia Salmonella uses gut bioelectricity to find entry points for infection, study reveals. Study: Gut ...

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Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A. Abstract: Nicholas Senn (1844-1908) surgeon, professor of ...

It carries a high rate of mortality and morbidity. A number of studies have implicated non-traumatic gas gangrene and colonic neoplasia. This paper reports a patient who presented spontaneously with ...

A new study of rats with disrupted gut microbiota found that exercise mitigated the negative effects of this disruption on ...