A CT scan revealed large bowel obstruction (LBO) secondary to a faecal bolus in the sigmoid colon with appearances suggestive of adult-onset Hirschsprung’s disease. She underwent an emergency ...

Ulcerative colitis is a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD ... the inflammation is located in the rectum and sigmoid ...

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 ...

The most common site of CP was in the sigmoid colon (n = 12, 80%), and followed by the transverse colon (n = 2, 13%) and the benign stricture site of ileorectal anastomosis (n = 1, 7%).

Colon volvulus is an abnormal twisting within the gastrointestinal tract that can impair blood flow. Most cases occur in the sigmoid colon, the S-shaped last part of the large intestine that leads to ...

Design In this single-centre case–control study, sigmoid colon biopsies were obtained from patients with UC with ongoing inflammation (n=36) or in remission (n=28), and from 47 patients without ...

The sigmoid colon and rectum are then released by your surgeon ... If necessary, a surgical hernia repair can solve this problem. The following are other complications after abdominoperineal resection ...

Disease activity and vascularisation within the affected bowel wall areas were assessed by duplex/Colour Doppler ultrasonography. Results At baseline, 88.5% (n=224) of the patients had an increased ...

leaving only a small segment towards the caecum free of disease. The ileum could not be visualised. No mucosal lesions were evident. MRI enteroclysis showed concentric mural thickening of the rectum ...