Small intestine cancer occurs when abnormal cells grow in the tissues of the small bowel, the long tube that connects your ...

How much guts does it take to survive? Nature supplies man with an average 25 feet, four-fifths of it in the small intestine (comprising the duodenum, ileum and jejunum). Through the small intestine’s ...

For several years surgeons of the Mayo Clinic “have been becoming more & more fearful of operating on the keen, nervous, active, hard-living, ‘go-getting’, sales-manager type of man” who comes to them ...

Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome is a condition that affects the duodenum — the section of the small intestine that joins the stomach. The syndrome is caused by the compressing of the ...

Medically reviewed by Qin Rao, MD Symptoms of GI bleeding include stomach pain, vomiting blood, or having black, tarry ...

Intraepithelial lymphocytosis is a complex immunological phenomenon. It commonly affects the gastrointestinal tract, where damage to the lining of tissue causes the number of lymphocytes (a type of ...