Acute colonic ileus or Ogilvie's syndrome is an acute nonmechanical colonic obstruction with an unclear pathophysiology. This motility disorder generally occurs in elderly patients with serious ...

A French cohort study confirmed high risks for lymphoma and small bowel cancer in patients with celiac disease but also found elevated risks for pancreatic, esophageal, gastric and colonic cancers, as ...

In general, the diameter of the distended proximal colon is not helpful in determining the patient's prognosis, because risk of colonic perforation is related more to duration of the dilation than ...