Typically, the watershed areas of the colon—the splenic flexure and rectosigmoid junction—are affected. Colonic ischemia mostly affects older persons with advanced atherosclerosis and/or ...

At first the endoscope could be advanced without difficulty, but starting at the right colonic flexure we found multiple submucous cysts that prevented safe advancement to the cecal pole due to ...

descending colon, and the oral side of the splenic flexure) in each patient. The colonic site with maximum inflammation was determined for each patient. Conclusions: Sigmoidoscopy is not ...

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 ...