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Giant colonic diverticulum [PDF]

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Five patients with giant colonic diverticulum (GCD) are reported. Three of them had complications of the GCD including free perforation with pneumoperitoneum and peritonitis and an instance of carcinoma arising in a GCD. The preoperative diagnosis of GCD is made radiographically with findings of a large, smoothly marginated, round or oval, homogenous ...
JJ Stasik, WJ Dex, R Kricun, RD Reither
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Giant colonic diverticulum

Irish Journal of Medical Science, 2004
Over 100 giant colonic diverticuli have been recorded in the literature to date. The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and pathophysiology of their aetiology have rarely been described.To report a giant colonic diverticulum along with the MRI of this clinical entity.An 87 year old female presented with symptoms of tenesmus, urgency and alteration in ...
A. A. Nicholson   +4 more
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Uroepithelium in a colonic diverticulum

Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2000
Giant colonic diverticula are rare entities and often present in adulthood as acute diverticulitis. The authors present a case of giant colonic pseudodiverticulum lined with uroepithelium causing bowel obstruction in a neonate. The presence of uroepithelium in a colonic pseudodiverticuium remains unexplained and to the authors' knowledge unreported ...
Thomas K. Lee   +4 more
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Giant Colonic Diverticulum

New England Journal of Medicine, 1995
Figure 1. A 70-year-old woman had a six-month history suggestive of recurrent, self-limited episodes of acute diverticulitis. A scout film for a barium enema showed a rounded, smooth-walled structure measuring 10 cm in diameter and containing air (Panel A). The barium enema showed entry of contrast medium into the structure (Panel B).
William Silen, Robert G. Sheiman
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Giant colon diverticulum

Journal of Visceral Surgery, 2015
Giant colonic diverticulum is defined by a diverticulum whose diameter is greater than 4 cm. This is a rare entity, arising mainly in the sigmoid colon. The diagnosis is based on abdominal computed tomography that shows a gas-filled structure communicating with the adjacent colon, with a smooth, thin diverticular wall that does not enhance after ...
Charbel Chater, P. Zerbib, A. Saudemont
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Obstructing Giant Colonic Diverticulum

Southern Medical Journal, 2000
We report the second case of an obstructing true colonic diverticulum. Of the 103 cases of giant sigmoid diverticulum found in the literature, 13% have been reported as true giant sigmoid diverticulum, ie, containing all layers of the colonic wall. Our 75-year-old patient had clinical symptoms for only 6 months, and endoscopy revealed an almost totally
J, Majeski, G, Durst
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Bleeding Colonic Diverticulum

New England Journal of Medicine, 2003
A 73-year-old man presented with acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding. He was hemodynamically stable, and nasogastric-tube lavage revealed bile with no blood, suggesting a lower gastrointestinal source for the bleeding. Urgent colonoscopy, performed after a rapid colonic purge, revealed a profusely bleeding diverticulum in the sigmoid colon; at the ...
Sripathi R. Kethu, Harlan G. Rich
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Giant transverse colon diverticulum

La Presse Médicale, 2018
La Presse Medicale - In Press.Proof corrected by the author Available online since mercredi 31 janvier ...
Houcine Maghrebi   +4 more
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