Twenty-six patients had lesions in the sigmoid (Table ... patients having cancer of the colon can be safely operated on by resection of the lesion and intestinal anastomosis, and this is the ...

Woman who had agonizing stomach pain and a bloated belly had a twisted colon, or sigmoid volvulus. Doctors had to untwist it ...

Giant colonic diverticulum is an uncommon presentation of colonic diverticular disease. It is characterised by the presence of a diverticulum exceeding 4 cm in size, with approximately 90% of the ...

Exploratory laparotomy revealed ISK resulting in gangrene of ileum and sigmoid colon. In view of haemodynamic instability, end ileostomy was done after excising gangrenous segments. The patient ...

underwent other type of surgical procedures including Hartman sigmoidectomy (37), left or right hemicolectomy (123), ileo-rectal or ileo-transverse colon anastomosis (16), adhesiotomy (25 ...