For many people, diverticula are most likely to form in the sigmoid colon, increasing your risk of diverticulitis. Learn how this part of the colon functions, why it's important, and how to keep ...

Since the sigmoid colon is the most common site of carcinoma of the colon as well as diverticulitis, ... Laparotomy only was performed in 3 cases, and diverticulitis with perforation was found.

The sigmoid colon is located on the left side of the abdomen, which is why stomach pain from diverticulitis usually affects ...

(HealthDay News) — Laparoscopic lavage leads to worse outcomes than primary resection in patients with perforated diverticulitis, according to a study published in the Oct. 6 issue of the ...

Free perforation with peritonitis may occur. ... Exploration gave evidence of a fairly extensive chronic inflammatory process, limited to the sigmoid colon, ...

But diverticulitis recurrence was more frequent after lavage, often leading to sigmoid resection (30% in the lavage group went on to sigmoid resection), yet with a lower stoma prevalence, the ...

They are most common in the sigmoid colon. ... Acute diverticulitis (e.g., inflammation, infection, or perforation) is typically suspected when a patient presents with lower abdominal pain ...

Diverticulitis can lead to serious complications such as abscess, perforation, intestinal blockage from internal scarring, or fistula, which is an abnormal connection between two organs.

It starts after the splenic flexure, or bend, and ends as it joins the sigmoid colon. It is a retroperitoneal organ, ... including IBD, colonic perforation, and diverticulitis.

Transverse view of sigmoid colon post-perforation, with free air and feces in the abdomen. He had a long history of constipation and had shown up at an emergency department two days before doctors ...

Review article Imaging Techniques in Sigmoid Diverticulitis. Dtsch Arztebl 2007; 104(49): A-3400. Piroth, W; Haage, P; Hohl, C; Günther, R W ...