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Giant diverticulum of colon treated by diverticulectomy
Hospital Medicine, 2000Giant diverticulum of the colon is a rare condition. If left untreated it will enlarge and give rise to symptoms or serious complications so it is best treated electively once the diagnosis is made. Local excision of the diverticulum could be adequate surgical treatment as an alternative to sigmoid colectomy.
P J Jeffery, R K Gendy
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Giant true diverticulum of sigmoid colon
American Journal of Gastroenterology, 1998A case of giant true diverticulum of the sigmoid colon, manifesting as pain and abdominal mass is presented. The patient is asymptomatic after resection of the diverticulum and end-to-end anastomosis of the colon.
Satheesh Nair, H. Grover, Hilary Hertan
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Diverticulum formation in Crohn's disease of the colon
Clinical Radiology, 1979Three patients are described with ulceration of the colon in whom the disease was complicated by the formation of diverticula. In one patient this took the form of pseudo-diverticulum formation, which is well recognised, but in the others diverticula were wide-necked, and in one patient followed deep ulceration, a finding which does not appear to have ...
P.B. Guyer, F.J. Brunton
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Solitary Diverticulum of the Colon in Childhood
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1961Solitary diverticulum of the descending colon in a child appears to be sufficiently rare to warrant publication; it has not been possible to find a similar case in the literature. This case is even more unusual in that an accurate diagnosis was made on clinical grounds alone by the patient's general practitioner, Dr. S.
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CT demonstration of a giant colonic diverticulum
Gastrointestinal Radiology, 1987A case of giant sigmoid colonic diverticulum (GCD) is presented in which plain films showed an unchanging persistent large gas collection that did not opacify on barium enema. The computed tomographic scan revealed the GCD in close apposition to the adjacent sigmoid diverticulosis.
Theodore R. Smith, Ira M. Tyler
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Adenocarcinoma arising within a colonic diverticulum
Pathology International, 1996A case of cancer arising in a diverticulum of the ascending colon In a 67‐year‐old male is reported. The 1.5 × 1.0 cm well‐differentiated adenocarcinoma protruded from the base of the inverted mucosa of the diverticulum. The surrounding flat colonic mucosa was not involved by the cancerous process.
Sotaro Sadahiro +4 more
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Perforated congenital diverticulum of the sigmoid colon
Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2002A case of perforation of a congenital sigmoid diverticulum producing diffuse peritonitis in a 4-year-old boy is presented. Physical examination showed an acute abdomen despite a normal computed tomography study. Successful surgical treatment was achieved by excision of the diverticulum, adjacent bowel, and an end-to-end anastomosis.
Michael Willerth, Gregory Alan Jeppesen
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Giant Diverticulum of the Sigmoid Colon
Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, 2021Francisco Miguel González-Valverde +2 more
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New England Journal of Medicine, 1999
Figure 1. A 42-year-old man with a history of mild, intermittent pain on the lower left side of the abdomen presented with an episode of painless hematochezia. The physical examination was normal, and his hematocrit was 44 percent. Diverticulosis of the sigmoid colon (Panel A) was revealed during flexible sigmoidoscopy for evaluation of the bleeding ...
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Figure 1. A 42-year-old man with a history of mild, intermittent pain on the lower left side of the abdomen presented with an episode of painless hematochezia. The physical examination was normal, and his hematocrit was 44 percent. Diverticulosis of the sigmoid colon (Panel A) was revealed during flexible sigmoidoscopy for evaluation of the bleeding ...
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Giant congenital diverticulum of the sigmoid colon
Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 1975Congenital, or true, diverticulum of the colon containing all layers of the bowel *all is uncommon but is known to occur infrequently in the cecum and ascending colon where it may produce symptoms of acute diverticulitis.‘W4 An 8-yr-old boy was recently admitted for excision of a large diverticulum of the sigmoid colon associated with chronic ...
John N. Schullinger +2 more
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