INTRODUCTION We report a case of colonoscopy-assisted laparoscopic sigmoidectomy used for the management of sigmoid volvulus. CASE PRESENTATION We report a 68-year-old female who underwent colonoscopy assisted laparoscopic sigmoidectomy. In this procedure, an anvil is inserted into the anus with colonoscopic assistance. An anastomosis is established without removing the colon from the abdomin...

Sigmoid colon is one of the most variable parts of the large intestine. Here we report a very rare type of variation of the sigmoid colon. This variation was observed during the routine dissections for undergraduate medical students at Melaka Manipal Medical College (Manipal Campus) India in September 2012. In the current case, the sigmoid colon was about 60 cms long and made an inverted U shap...

T-fasteners havebeenused successfully for percutaneous endoscopic sigmoidopexy [1]; however, peritonitismaydevelop after percutaneous endoscopic sigmoidostomy [2]. We present a patient with recurrent sigmoid volvulus who was treated endoscopically by sigmoidopexy assisted by T-fasteners and sigmoidostomy. A 95-year-old man was hospitalized five times between July 2013 and February 2015 because ...

We report a case of a 79-year-old gentleman who presented to the emergency department with a 5-day history of abdominal pain, constipation, a progressively distending abdomen and new onset feculent vomiting on a background of a recent endoscopic decompression of a sigmoid volvulus. Investigations confirmed the presence of a recurrent sigmoid volvulus. Attempts to reduce this endoscopically fail...