or metallic hyperactive bowel sounds can indicate a small or large bowel obstruction. Bowel obstruction occurs when your intestines become partially or fully blocked. The blockage prevents normal ...

Additionally, the adhesions may form between different parts of the small or large bowel. If a fixed intestine becomes twisted, it can lead to an obstruction. Bowel obstructions caused by ...

means that part of the large intestine is longer than normal. This can cause complications like twisting of the organ, which ...

This section is about surgery for cancer that starts in the large bowel (colon cancer ... You might have surgery if advanced bowel cancer blocks your bowel and causes symptoms of bowel obstruction.