Diseases of the Colon & RectumPescatori, M, Maria, G, Mattana, C, Vulpio, C, Vecchio, F 1985 Clinical picture and pelvic floor physiology in the solitary rectal ulcer syndrome. Dis Colon Rectum 28 862 867Pescatori M, Maria G, Mattana C, Vulpio C, Vecchio F. Clinical ...
The large intestine (colon or large bowel) is about 5 feet long and about 3 inches in diameter. The colon absorbs water from wastes, creatingstool. As stool enters the rectum, nerves there create the urge to defecate. Image Source: © 2009 WebMD, LLC. All rights reserved. ...
The transcriptional expression of PGs was detected in 16 of all 33 tumors. PGC was highly expressed in cholangiocarcinoma, colon adenocarcinoma, rectum adenocarcinoma, uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma, bladder urothelial carcinoma and breast cancer, while decreased in stomach adenocarcinoma, kidney renal...
Colonoscopy.The American Cancer Society recommends people with average risk for colon cancer start getting colonoscopies at age 45. A colonoscopy detects abnormalities such as polyps in your large intestine (colon) and rectum. The procedure is more involved than a regular doctor’s visit. You have ...
The reason why it’s weird is that your embryonic hindgut (descending colon, sigmoid colon, and rectum) and most of your pelvic viscera and reproductive system get their parasympathetic innervation from the pelvic splanchnic nerves. The gonads are buried in all of that, and they may get some ...
That’s actually pretty weird, even for a nerve from your skull that innervates most of your digestive tract. The reason why it’s weird is that your embryonic hindgut (descending colon, sigmoid colon, and rectum) and most of your pelvic viscera and reproductive system get their parasympatheti...
Your GI tract includes your mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum, and anus. Digestive System Function Digestion is the complicated process of turning the food you eat into nutrients, which your body uses for energy, growth, and cell repair. The digestion process ...
in the first image (figure 2), barium enters the empty rectum and encounters stenosis, giving rise to a beaklike appearance, the so-called bird's beak or bird-of-prey sign.figure 3 shows beaking of 2 loops of adjacent bowel, signifying a twist of the sigmoid colon. figure 1. a ...
figure 1. a radiograph of the abdomen was obtained, showing a markedly distended sigmoid colon with an inverted u-shaped appearance; the limbs of the sigmoid loop are directed toward the pelvis, while the other end enters the left upper quadrant. figure 2. a barium enema was used for the ...