Many health conditions can affect the descending colon, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), colon cancer, colonic perforation, and diverticulitis. The colon helps the body absorb water and ...
Tumour, node and metastasis (TNM) staging is one of the systems used to stage bowel (colon and rectal) cancer. The stage of a cancer tells you how big it is and how far it has spread. It helps your ...
It is also known as congenital megacolon. With megacolon, the bowel becomes extremely dilated and atonic (not moving) with a large amount of stool "just sitting there." In many ways, atonic colon is ...