This case involves a healthy sixty-two-year-old female patient with no significant past medical history who presented to a medical facility for a routine colonoscopy to remove polyps. She was discharged shortly after the procedure. She returned to the medical center’s…
This case involves a fifty-seven-year-old male patient who was admitted to the hospital for complaints of hemorrhoids and rectal pain. The patient was experiencing constipation and took laxatives for relief, but, upon moving his bowels, the patient sustained a rectal…
This case involves a seventy-three-year-old female patient with a history of smoking, diabetes, and hypertension. The patient was seen by her primary care physician several times for rectal exams and testing for blood in the stool. On all occasions, there…
This case involves a fifty-six-year-old female patient who presented to her family physician complaining of increased rectal bleeding during bowel movements. The patient had a history of hemorrhoids and had several ligation procedures in attempts to remedy the issue. The…
This case involves a fifty-two-year-old female that was diagnosed with stage three cervical cancer. Approximately one year after her diagnosis, the patient began to experience blood in her stool, along with painful bowel movements. The patient was sent for a…
This OR operations case involves a fifty-eight-year-old female patient who presented to the ER complaining of multiple episodes of daily, non-bilious, non-bloody vomiting, along with generalized abdominal pain. The patient was diagnosed with an intestinal obstruction and was taken to the…
This case involves a 31-year-old female with a past medical history of HTN, DM, OSA, and Obesity. The patient had been struggling with complicated diverticulitis that subsequently resulted in a perforated bowel with several abscess formations that were initially treated…
