Documents tagged with intestine

Colon Cancer Prognosis

Colon cancer is cancer of the large intestine (colon), the lower part of your digestive system. Also called colon cancer or large bowel cancer, includes cancerous growths in the colon, rectum and a...
  • IPGDx published this 12 / 15 / 2009
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CONSTIPATION - To go or not (to be able) to go... that is the question

Things to make your BUNS HAPPY and your body better!
  • royost published this 06 / 20 / 2009
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Hexavalent Chromium Is Carcinogenic to F344/N Rats and B6C3F1 Mice after Chronic Oral Exposure

Hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] is a human carcinogen after inhalation exposure. Humans also ingest Cr(VI) from contaminated drinking water and soil; however, limited data exist on the oral toxicity a...
  • ehponline published this 05 / 19 / 2009
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Complete Intestinal Obstruction

Complete Intestinal Obstruction (CIO)
  • Thuganamix published this 03 / 08 / 2009
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Gastric Bypass Surgery – What can it do for you?

Some people have gastric bypass surgery and shed 100 pounds or more. What can this surgery do for you?
  • media.hb published this 09 / 13 / 2007
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Video capsule instead of breakfast - Ideas For Surgery

May 19, 2007 Video capsule instead of breakfast Will frequent video endoscopic evaluation help to detect more serious diseases in the digestive tract? Can capsule endoscopy technology be refined to...
  • kurtthorsten published this 05 / 27 / 2007
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Drug coated stent program terminated - Ideas For Surgery Blog at www.ideasforsurgery.com

May 15, 2007 Drug coated stent program terminated Are stents really effective in preventing heart arteries from occlusion? Is the hype about metal mesh tubes in arteries just another temporary def...
  • kurtthorsten published this 05 / 15 / 2007
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Sutureless vascular grafting - Ideas For Surgery Blog at www.ideasforsurgery.com

May 14, 2007 Sutureless vascular grafting How can end-to-end anastomosis be done in a minimally invasive way? What are the requirements in tensile strength, and durability, of the anastomosis for b...
  • kurtthorsten published this 05 / 13 / 2007
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All in vein - Ideas For Surgery Blog at www.ideasforsurgery.com

May 12, 2007 All in vein How does the minimally invasive treatment of varicose veins evolve? Is sclerotherapy a promising therapeutic alternative? Will the trend to treatment at ambulatory outpati...
  • kurtthorsten published this 05 / 12 / 2007
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No Fix For Stent-grafts EVAR - Ideas For Surgery Blog at www.ideasforsurgery.com

May 7, 2007 No Fix for Stent-grafts Are stents and stent-grafts at an evolutionary dead-end? Do extended suprarenal stents with more flexibility lead to more acute fixation? Will a shorter sealing...
  • kurtthorsten published this 05 / 07 / 2007
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Medicare folds stents - Ideas For Surgery Blog at www.ideasforsurgery.com

May 4, 2007 Medicare folds stents One quarter of the 700,000 stroke cases reported annually in the United States are believed to be related to the clogging of the carotid artery with cholesterol d...
  • kurtthorsten published this 05 / 04 / 2007
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Patents going open source - Ideas For Surgery Blog at www.ideasforsurgery.com

May 3, 2007 Patents going open source th How will the April 30 ruling of the High Court affect the issuance of new patents? Is the open-source world getting bigger? What effect does it have on med...
  • kurtthorsten published this 05 / 03 / 2007
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No Scar Not Far - Ideas For Surgery Blog at www.ideasforsurgery.com

April 30, 2007 No Scar Not Far If in April 2007 a patient needs to decide on how to treat GERD, what will be the treatment of choice? Will the patient go on the internet and look up state-of-the-ar...
  • kurtthorsten published this 04 / 30 / 2007
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No Scar Surgery - Ideas For Surgery Blog at www.ideasforsurgery.com

April 13, 2007 No Scar Surgery on natural pathways: going endo inside the lumen of vessels or hollow organs like the esophagus. Or through blood vessels, the size of a garden hose, descending in f...
  • kurtthorsten published this 04 / 13 / 2007
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