Determining whether biliary strictures are benign or malignant often is critical for planning therapy. Researchers in Germany prospectively compared the diagnostic yield of tissue sampling techniques ...

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone faced the hundreds of teachers from four Catholic high schools Friday for the first time since announcing his intent to include morality clauses in their handbook and ...

The urethra is the thin tube that carries urine from the urinary bladder out of the body. A urethral stricture is when narrowing from scar tissue occurs in the urethra. Urethral strictures can ...

Urethral stricture is scarring in the urethra, the tube that moves urine out of your body. The scarring blocks or narrows your urethra and makes it difficult to urinate. It can cause pain. If left ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Bartel and colleagues assigned 3 mg budesonide orally twice a day for 8 weeks to 25 patients who underwent ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Dilating small intestinal Crohn’s disease strictures with balloon-assisted enteroscopy had good short-term ...

To the Editor: The important contribution by Goulston and McGovern in the August 7 issue of the NEJM presents "evidence that stricture formation in ulcerative colitis is due to hypertrophy and ...

A natural protein made by immune cells may limit fibrosis and scarring in colitis, according to research. Fibrosing strictures that can obstruct the intestines are a major complication of Crohn's ...

Experts agree that intestinal ultrasound is repeatable, well-tolerated, and accurately diagnoses and provides a monitoring strategy for small bowel Crohn's disease strictures. Diverse roundtable panel ...

In a series of 19 examples of benign stricture of the colon in patients with chronic ulcerative colitis insufficient fibrosis was found in the resected specimens to account for the narrowing.

Imaging revealed the kitten’s esophagus was under 1 mm in diameter, compared with 8 mm expected at his age.