Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Soichiro Ishihara, Yuka Okada, Kohei Ohno, Takahiro Yagi, Yoshihisa Fukushima, Ryu Shimada, Tamuro Hayama, Takeshi Tsuchiya, Keijiro Nozawa, Keiji Matsuda, Ryosuke Matsuoka, Ichiro Mori, Ryuji Fukuzawa, Aki Takiyama, Yoshihiko Takao, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Kiyoshi Kikuchi, Yojiro Hashiguchi
A 47-year-old male patient without a documented past medical history was referred to Sanno Hospital because of constipation and abdominal pain, which he had had for more than 5 years. Abdominal X-ray and CT scan showed an enlarged ascending colon from the cecum to the transverse colon, without apparent mechanical obstruction. The patient was diagnosed with chronic idiopathic colonic pseudo-obstruction, and because his symptoms were resistant to medication, surgical treatment was required. Laparoscopic subtotal colectomy was performed without any complications...
January 7, 2019: Asian Journal of Endoscopic Surgery