The abdominal computed tomographic (CT) scan revealed the presence of a tumor located at the splenic flexure of the colon, which was nearly obstructing the bowel lumen and also had signs of ...

There were 6 cases of cancer of the transverse colon (Table 3 ... There were 6 cases of cancer of the splenic flexure (Table 4). A palliative operation was done in 3 of these, in 2 of which ...

Traditionally, the conceptual division between the right and left colon has been located ... distal portions consisting of the transverse colon, splenic flexure, descending and sigmoid colon ...

Among these patients, inflamed mucosa in the descending colon or the oral side of the splenic flexure was observed endoscopically in 54 (40%). Even in the 125 patients with clinical remission ...