A case is presented of an ileosigmoid knot in a 70 year old man. A strangulated loop of ileum was wrapped around the neck of a sigmoid volvulus. Following small bowel resection and sigmoid colectomy with colostomy, the patient made an uneventful recovery.

Neoadjuvant systemic therapy is a preferred treatment approach for number of tumor types due to many potential advantages over upfront surgery, including downstaging, early micrometastatic disease, and providing an in vivo test biology. For colon cancer, current standard care surgery followed by adjuvant high-risk patients. Concerns about inaccurate radiological staging progression during preop...

BACKGROUND FOLFOX-based adjuvant chemotherapy is a benefit for high-risk stage II and stage III colon cancer after curative resection. But, the prognostic factor or predictive marker for the efficacy of FOLFOX remains unclear. This study was aimed to identify the prognostic value and cumulative impact of adjuvant FOLFOX on the stage II and III colon cancer patients. METHODS A total of 196 sta...

Introduction. Neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) are slow-growing and rare tumors with different clinical, histological, biological characteristics an increased incidence in recent years. Most them indolent colonic NENs among all GIT-NENs. Compared to colorectal adenocarcinoma neuroendocrine colon sigmoid uncommon. Case outline. We present a 25-year-old female p...

BACKGROUND Emergency surgery for colon cancer, as a result of obstruction, has been vitiated by a high frequency of complications and poor survival. The concept of "bridge to surgery" includes either placement of self-expanding metallic stents (SEMS) or diverting stoma of an obstructing tumour and subsequent planned resection. The aim of this study was to compare acute resection with stoma or s...

background of the study: colorectal cancer (crc) which is the third most diagnosed cancer throughout the world is steadily rising in the asian countries with the incidence rates mimicking the western counterparts. the pre-neoplastic nature of the transitional mucosa (tm) adjoining crc lacks conclusive evidence so far. pertaining to this, the study of the mucus layer, the functional component of...

Schwannomas are neoplasms originating from Schwann cells, which are the cells forming nerve sheaths. These neoplasms generally involve peripheral nerves. They rarely affect the gastrointestinal tract and primary colon involvement is extremely rare. The objective of the present paper was to present a case of primary schwannoma of the sigmoid colon, unassociated with von Recklinghausen disease, t...

The adenosine triphosphate-based chemotherapy response assay (ATP-CRA) is a chemosensitivity test that offers the potential of selecting cancer treatments based on the responsiveness of individual tumors. We report a case of 47-yr-old male, presented with sigmoid colon cancer with multiple liver and peritoneal metastases, in which there was a complete response for the primary colon cancer after...