Healio: A Patient with Sigmoid Colon Resection for Diverticulitis, and Pathology Report Reading 'Chronic Colitis' A Patient with Sigmoid Colon Resection for Diverticulitis, and Pathology Report Reading 'Chronic Colitis' Elective sigmoid resection for patients with recurrent, complicated, or persistent painful diverticulitis yielded a better quality of life and prevented recurrences compared with nonsurgical ... Sigmoid volvulus accounts for 2% to 5% of all large bowel obstructions in the United States and continues to carry a relatively high morbidity and mortality. The safety of 1-stage resectional therapy ...
Elective laparoscopic sigmoid resection improves quality of life and decreases the risk of recurrence of diverticulitis compared with conservative treatment, according to 2-year follow-up results from ... Laparoscopic sigmoid resection significantly improved quality of life (QOL) in patients with recurrent, complicated, or persistent painful diverticulitis, though was associated with a small but ... The New England Journal of Medicine: An Evaluation of the Anterior Resection of the Rectum and Low Sigmoid Distal Spread of Carcinoma of the Rectosigmoid. In 1952 Cole 10 reported the recurrence of carcinoma in the suture line after adequate anterior resection of the rectum in 10 per cent of a series of 55 ...
sigmoid resection, An Evaluation of the Anterior Resection of the Rectum and Low Sigmoid
