9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia Wikipedia is·che·mi·a (ĭ-skē′mē-ə) n. A decrease in the blood supply to a bodily organ, tissue, or part caused by constriction or obstruction of the blood vessels...
Patients were identified using computerized searches of ICD-9 (International Classification of Diseases, ninth revision) codes for colon ischemia, and patterns of colon involvement were then tabulated and categorized into five major groups: right colon, transverse colon, left colon, distal colon, and ...