Sigmoid colon
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- The sigmoid colon is relatively mobile because of its long mesenteric attachment: sigmoid volvulus (obstruction due to twisting) can occur causing acute illness requiring emergency surgery because the bowel is not only obstructed but its blood supply is compromised.
- A technique for ureteroileal cutaneous anastomosis when the sigmoid colon is fixed.
- Mortality after acute surgery for complications of diverticular disease of the sigmoid colon is almost exclusively due to patient-related factors.
- The sigmoid colon is entirely surrounded.
- The most caudal loop (arrow) of sigmoid colon is filled with barium.
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