Colonic diverticula. Radiological diagnosis.

Giant colonic pseudo-diverticula importance of, and aids to radiological diagnosis: a case series

INTRODUCTION This case series illustrates the clinical presentation and radiological findings of two patients in whom the diagnosis of a Giant Colonic Diverticulum (GCD) was histologically confirmed. We also discuss the pathogenesis and differential diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATION In one case, the patient had no previous large bowel symptoms and intra operatively no other colonic diverticula wer...

Urgent surgery for complicated colonic diverticula.

UNLABELLED The AIM of this retrospective study was to evaluate the emergency surgical treatment of life-threatening complications of colonic diverticula. MATERIAL AND METHOD In the last 11 years, 22 of 101 patients with colonic diverticula (22.1%) underwent urgent surgery for acute complications: perforated gangrenous diverticulitis with generalized peritonitis (n=8) or pericolic abscess (n=8...

Radiological diagnosis of recurrent colonic carcinoma at the anastomosis.

The barium enemas of 23 cases of end-to-end anastomosis following resection of a colonic carcinoma demonstrated that the normal anastomosis should be smooth, symmetrical, and have a regular mucosal pattern. In contrast the three patients reported with proven recurrent carcinoma at the anastomosis showed irregular asymmetrical filling defects1. As a base line the anastomosis should be investigat...

Calyceal diverticula complicated by urolithiasis: Imaging appearance and radiological intervention

CLINICAL PRACTICE Colonic Diverticula Pathology and Natural History

sacs are bounded by the hypertrophied circular and longitudinal fibres and their contents remain almost shut off. These pouches are the result of constipation, muscular fibres become hypertrophied, but their effort to propel onward their contents lead to these minute hernial protrusions." W. H. Cripps described vesicocolic fistula due to inflammatory changes in the colon in 1888,3 and in 1903 R...