BRUSSELS — In the face of ever-increasing demand, surgical techniques enabling significant weight loss are on the rise. It is simpler and less invasive to perform anastomosis by compression with two ...

Gastrointestinal cancer surgeons at the UC San Francisco have performed the health system’s 15,000th robotically assisted minimally invasive surgery, making it the first University of California ...

Young, male or female, with early, first-episode pain or nonshock-producing bleeding. There is no disagreement on treatment for the young patient in the third or fourth decade of life who has his or ...

Duodenal fistulas represent a formidable complication of gastric surgery, often arising after gastrectomy and reconstruction procedures. The continuous leakage of biliary and pancreatic secretions ...

LARGE ulcers of the duodenum are rare. Only -L# 21 cases of duodenal ulcers of 2 cm. or more have been reported in the literature. These so-called giant duodenal ulcers may involve the entire duodenal ...