METHOD: Ninety five sigmoid colons (fifty male subjects) were harvested at autopsy. The following measurements were made: length of the sigmoid colon, length of the mesocolon root, height of the mesocolon. The sigmoid length. mesocolic root length ratio and sigmoid length: mesocolic height ratios were also calculated. All means and ratios were compared for gender using the Student t-test. P < 0...

Only ten cases of neonatal congenital segmental dilatation (CSD) of the colon have been described so far. We present a full-term female newborn with trisomy 21, ventricular septal defect, and gross abdominal distension. Plain abdominal radiographs revealed a huge cystic lesion occupying the left hemiabdomen. Upon laparotomy on day 4 a CSD of the distal sigmoid and proximal rectum was confirmed ...

(Fig. A). The end of the foreign body was carefully and firmly grasped with forceps, and gently dislodged from the colon wall (Fig. B). It was easily removed intact through the anus, and the procedure was uneventful. Focal mucosal edema with bloody erythema was noted at the sigmoid colon after removing the foreign body (Fig. C). Her abdominal pain improved considerably immediately after removal...

BACKGROUND Secondary metastasis to regional lymph nodes for adjacent bowel invaded by colorectal cancers (CRCs) has not been extensively reviewed. We herein present three such cases. CASE PRESENTATION The first case is a cancer involving the cecum and sigmoid colon, and its primary site could not be determined even by pathological evaluation. Nodal involvement was revealed both in the mesocol...

Endometriosis (E) is an estrogen-dependent inflammatory disorder that is observed in approximately 10% of women in childbearing age, and is the most common benign gynecological disorder requiring hospitalization. In 5% of cases, there is an involvement of the gastrointestinal tract, for the most part of the sigmoid colon and rectum (~ 90%). However intestinal obstruction due to severe stenosis ...

BACKGROUND Secondary tumours of the hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage are extremely rare. In this paper, we present a case of the hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage metastases in a patient treated for sigmoid colon adenocarcinoma. CASE REPORT Four years after sigmoid colon adenocarcinoma was diagnosed and treated with surgery and chemotherapy, the patient developed bone metastases in the left sa...

A 35-year-old man with a medical history of schizophrenia was presented at the hospital because of abdominal pain and fever. There were evidence of localized peritoneal irritation by exam. His laboratory tests on admission revealed an elevated white blood cell count of 24.700 mm and neutrophilia (88.1%). An abdominal CT scan showed four foreign bodies (Fig. 1), one of them producing a sigmoid c...

Introduction: We report the clinical observation of 2 cases volvulus with sigmoid necrosis in children. Observation: Two male patients, aged 12 and 15, were hospitalized acute mechanical bowel obstruction. There was an asymmetric, motionless meteorism rectal emptiness. X-rays abdomen revealed arch. Laparotomy found colon. The Hartmann-type colostomy ideal colectomy surgical procedures. Conclusi...

The distribution of regulatory peptides was studied in the separated mucosa, submucosa and muscularis externa taken at 10 sampling sites encompassing the whole human sigmoid colon (five sites), rectum (two sites), and anal canal (three sites). Consistently high concentrations of VIP were measured in the muscle layer at most sites (proximal sigmoid: 286 (16) pmol/g, upper rectum: 269 (17), a mod...

Congenital infantile fibrosarcoma (CIF) is a rare soft-tissue tumor in the pediatric age group and seldom involves the gastrointestinal tract. A 2-day-old boy was transferred to our hospital with a pneumpoperitoneum. After emergency operation, we could find a solid mass wrapping around a sigmoid colon and performed a segmental resection of sigmoid colon including a mass. Histopathologic examina...