Colo-Rectal
Last updated
(26 October 2003)
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Colo-Rectal
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The clinicians were convinced about the diagnosis of toxic colitis, neither CT scanning nor colonsocpy were performed and the patient brought to theater.
What does this intra-operative image show?
Normal
colon
Tumour
of the transverse colon
Transverse colon
grossly distended
with gas
Volvulus
of the transverse colon
The
greater omentum
has been separated from the trasnverse colon
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Adrian P. Ireland