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Professor Philip Lowe, 69, died in February last year from a perforated sigmoid colon following treatment for a twisted bowel at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH).

Diverticulosis has been noted to be a predisposing factor for perforation. 14 Given the evidence of diverticular perforation on pathological examination, it is likely that this patient's toothpick ...

Increased intracolonic pressure is one possible explanation, but if this was the case, then one would expect that the same mechanism would lead to perforated sigmoid diverticulitis.

Diverticulosis Diverticulosis is a condition that occurs when small pouches, or sacs, form and push outward through weak spots in the wall of the colon. They are most common in the sigmoid colon ...

A 77-year-old man is admitted to the ICU after an emergency laparotomy for a perforated sigmoid colon with marked peritoneal contamination. He is mechanically ventilated and hypotensive.

The inquest at Gort, Co Galway, returned a verdict in accordance with the evidence of pathologist Dr Michael Cassidy, who found that Ms Ward died from peritonitis due to a perforated sigmoid colon ...

A 92-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of pain in the left lower quadrant of the abdomen, disorientation, and dehydration, with the presumed diagnosis of perforated sigmoid ...

Typically, the diameter of a healthy adult’s rectum and sigmoid colon (the S-shaped region of the colon closest to the rectum) is in the range of five to six centimeters or so. This man’s ...

July 2009 Surgery New indications for laparoscopic sigmoidectomy Badma Bashankaev & Steven D. Wexner Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology 6, 388–390 (2009) Cite this article ...