Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

A healthy adult with severe rectal pain and constipation required endoscopic and operative evaluation after ingestion of ...

Disimpaction provides rapid relief from severe constipation by removing trapped stool in the rectum. The most common method of disimpaction involves manually breaking up and removing stool with a ...

Ingested seeds are small enough to pass through the pylorus and ileocecal valve, and resulting seed bezoars often accumulate in the distal colon or rectum, where they can cause substantial pain and ...