A perforated bowel, or intestinal perforation, occurs when a hole forms in the wall of the small intestine or colon (large ...

However, for disease limited to the small bowel, imaging, blood and fecal tests ... with a definite risk of complications, especially perforation. Factors that may affect the decision to perform ...

A woman who was diagnosed with bowel cancer when she was eight months pregnant has described how her first thought was to ...

Nikki Penrice, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, gave birth to a daughter, suffered a perforated bowel and had emergency surgery within the space of 12 days. She said her daughter Connie, now aged three ...