A myomectomy patient suffered bowel perforation, severe sepsis and emergency surgery, resulting in an ileostomy and over ...

As the gold standard for colon cancer, colonoscopies are often the subject of malpractice cases for gastroenterologists, according to a blog post from law firm Miller & Zois. Here are five things to ...

An 80-year-old man presented with progressive lower left-quadrant abdominal pain. Imaging studies identified a mass adjacent to the sigmoid colon, with features suggestive of an abscess, although no ...

A woman whose bowel was perforated during spinal surgery received payment of a $1.1 million settlement in her Essex County medical malpractice suit, Franco… A woman whose bowel was perforated during ...

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Researchers looked at nearly 1 million colonoscopies performed in Sweden over a 16-year span, including inpatient and outpatient procedures. Rates of bleeding and perforation were found to be lower in ...