A new report confirms earlier research that colon perforation in multiple myeloma is associated with corticosteroids, though the exact cause of the apparent link is not known. Colon perforation in ...

Matthew Perry is recovering after undergoing gastrointestinal surgery. In a statement to People, a representative revealed that the 48-year-old actor was rushed to a hospital in California because of ...

It’s the life-saving screening test that 50-somethings dread. A colonoscopy can detect polyps in the colon, but in less than one in every 1,000 cases, there is a serious side effect: the scope pierces ...

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice found a gynecologist surgeon negligent for failing to detect and repair a bowel perforation during a 2015 laparoscopic surgery, resulting in life-threatening ...

An 80-year-old man presented with progressive lower left-quadrant abdominal pain. Imaging studies identified a mass adjacent to the sigmoid colon, with features suggestive of an abscess, although no ...

Köhlmeier–Degos (KD) disease, also known as atrophic papulosis, is a rare obliterative vasculopathy with both a benign, cutaneous variant and a highly fatal, malignant, multi-system variant that most ...