It is felt in the upper left abdomen. The splenic flexure is the bend or curve inside the body where the transverse colon, which runs across the abdomen from right to left, joins the descending ...

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 ...

Table 4 Treatment of Carcinoma of Splenic Flexure. There were 6 cases of cancer of the descending colon — all resectable (Table 5). In 4 cases a resection and end-to-end suture were done ...

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 ...