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Segmental resection specimen demonstrating splenic flexure carpeted with polyps and site of perforation
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Fig1
A difficult splenic flexure resection was done extending from mid transverse colon to upper descending colon (Fig. 1).
Total colectomy specimen demonstrating caecum and ascending colon (below) and descending colon above carpeted with polyps with site of previous anastomosis at centre (above)
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Fig2
He underwent a subtotal colectomy with an ileorectal anastomosis (Figs. 2 and 3).
Colectomy specimen demonstrating no polyp in the distal sigmoid colon and rectum
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Fig3
He underwent a subtotal colectomy with an ileorectal anastomosis (Figs. 2 and 3).