Giant sigmoid diverticulum

Giant sigmoid diverticuli are uncommon and usually seen in association with multiple colonic diverticuli. A solitary diverticulum in an otherwise normal colon is very rare. Mostly asymptomatic, excision of giant sigmoid diverticuli is advised to prevent complications.

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Autor principal: Olatunde, Olaoye Iyiade
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4229001/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25396009
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2014.17.183.3786
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spelling pubmed-42290012014-11-13 Giant sigmoid diverticulum Olatunde, Olaoye Iyiade Pan Afr Med J Case Report Giant sigmoid diverticuli are uncommon and usually seen in association with multiple colonic diverticuli. A solitary diverticulum in an otherwise normal colon is very rare. Mostly asymptomatic, excision of giant sigmoid diverticuli is advised to prevent complications. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2014-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4229001/ /pubmed/25396009 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2014.17.183.3786 Text en © Olaoye Iyiade Olatunde et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4229001/
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