Summerville Medical Center recently marked a major milestone in its minimally invasive robotic surgery program, performing ...

You can ask your surgeon to explain your operation. Surgery to remove the left side of the colon is called a left hemi colectomy. Removing the right side of the bowel is called a right hemi colectomy.

However, to date there is no consensus on the use of laparoscopic surgery versus open sigmoid resection for ... steep learning curve for a laparoscopic colectomy, it would be imprudent to mandate ...

OBJECTIVE: To review the clinical experience with colectomy and ileoanal pull-through procedure in children from 1 hospital. DESIGN: Since 1977, 116 children 18 years of age or younger underwent ...