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Colorectal Surgery
Colon, rectum and anus: cancer resections planned on embryological planes, inflammatory bowel disease, diverticular disease and its perforations, and the stomas that make radical surgery survivable. The specialty where anatomy, oncology and function meet most visibly.
The operations
Procedures
What the specialty does in theatre, with the imagery that goes with it.
What the specialty does in theatre: each operation with its image, its indication, and the doors into OR prep and the step-by-step walkthrough.
Featured operation
Right hemicolectomy
Resection of the right colon for cancer: take the vessels at their origin, take the nodes with them, and join ileum to transverse colon.
Indication: Right-sided colon cancer; caecal volvulus; some right-sided Crohn's complications.

Common and emergency operations
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The room
Inside the colorectal surgery OR

Hub shaped by the Surgical Specialties Lead with the Colorectal surgery reviewer (open seat). Images and videos carry their source; educational use for supervised learning, not clinical guidance.