Barbie butt surgery helps patients with severe bowel disease reclaim their lives. Learn about this life-changing proctectomy procedure and recovery process.

Laparoscopic surgery produces comparable results to open surgery for rectal cancer, show the findings of the first, large, randomized trial of the technique. Laparoscopic proctectomy resulted in ...

In a landmark procedure, a 29-year-old patient suffering from symptomatic ulcerative colitis (UC) has undergone a successful laparoscopic restorative proctectomy and J-pouch surgery at Mediclinic ...

PURPOSERobotic-assisted proctectomy (RAP) has emerged as the predominant surgical approach for patients with rectal cancer in recent years; although good postoperative patient recovery with accurate ...

Endoscopic transanal proctectomy (ETAP) has shown promise as a minimally invasive procedure to treat rectal cancer, according to the findings of a recent prospective, multicentre study published ...