Other causes may include: Hernias that push through weakened areas of the abdominal wall Ongoing inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn’s disease Tumors or malignancies that grow and press on ...

With this condition, doctors usually find a small mass of tissue (lesion) on your bowel wall. More rarely, a lesion can work its way into the muscular layer as well. These lesions grow slowly.

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 ...

Griffin was 44 when doctors discovered that a 4.3-centimeter tumor had broken through the wall of her sigmoid colon, the part of the large intestine that connects to the rectum. The Hamilton ...

It has grown past the mucosa, deeper into the layers of your colon wall to involve the second layer of colon tissue called ...

is a condition where the blood flow to the large intestine is reduced and the colon wall is inflamed. This can be caused by various factors including low blood pressure, blood clots and ...

Diverticulosis occurs when small pockets, called diverticula, form along the colon wall. These pockets develop due to weakening within the muscle layers of the colon (also known as the wall of the ...

When constipation raises bowel wall pressure, the increased pressure makes diverticula form. Diverticula are little pockets within the colon that are more common after age 50. Often, they don't ...

Gene therapy ameliorates bowel dysmotility and enteric neuron degeneration and extends survival in lysosomal storage disorder mouse models. Science Translational Medicine , 2025; 17 (781) DOI: 10. ...