The sigmoid colon is the last section of the bowel ... like sacs that push outward through weak spots in your intestinal wall. Most of the time diverticula don’t cause any symptoms at ...

Diverticula are most common in the sigmoid colon in North America and Europe, because this is where the contents of the intestine put the most pressure on the muscular wall (in these populations).

showed diverticulosis of the descending and sigmoid colon, with focal areas of hyperemia and wall thickening in the distal descending colon. There were atherosclerotic changes in the aorta and ...

It is characterized by the presence of multiple gas-filled cysts within the wall of the colon, occurring most often in the sigmoid colon and rectum. Most cases are believed to be idiopathic but an ...

Colon cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer if you don’t count skin cancers. If the cancer hasn’t spread, then one of the possible treatments is a sigmoid colectomy. That may be a ...

Griffin was 44 when doctors discovered that a 4.3-centimeter tumor had broken through the wall of her sigmoid colon, the part of the large intestine that connects to the rectum. The Hamilton ...

She had undergone vaginal reconstruction with a sigmoid-colon autotransplant at the age of 25 years because of congenital vaginal agenesis. She had never smoked and was not taking any drugs.