A perforated bowel, or intestinal perforation, occurs when a hole forms in the wall of the small intestine or colon (large intestine). This allows the bowel's contents to leak into the abdominal ...

In our case series, the 2 upper intestinal perforations were likely due to shear stress from complex anatomy, but the colonic perforation was due to the therapeutic polypectomy, probably at a previous ...

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 ...