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 ...

In contrast, external rupture leads to a cutaneous fistula.2 3 Following rupture of a hepatic cyst, a fistulous tract is observed to form with the duodenum or the colon (hepatic flexure). Until now, ...

Results 118 palliative colonic stent procedures were undertaken for malignant large bowel obstruction, with 90 left-sided tumours and 28 right-sided obstructing tumours proximal to the splenic flexure ...

Therefore, we thought they were induced by forward sigmoid flexure due to gravity. Posture advice, including the knee–chest position and abdominal compression using colonic intraluminal pressure for ...