Anatom3DSigmoid colon
Colon sigmoideum · Esovitý tračník
Digestive system
Looks like
The S-shaped last loop of colon in the left lower belly before the rectum.
What it does
Stores stool briefly and moves it on.
Keeping it well
Fibre and water; this is where pouches (diverticula) and twisting most often happen.
Related conditions
- Acute mesenteric ischaemia (gut stroke)
- Appendicitis
- Bowel obstruction
- Chagas disease
- Chronic constipation
- Clostridioides difficile colitis
- Colon polyps
- Colorectal cancer
- Crohn's disease
- Diverticular disease
- Food poisoning
- Gastroenteritis
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Hereditary cancer syndromes (BRCA, Lynch)
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Infant colic
- Intussusception & pyloric stenosis
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Ischaemic colitis
- Liver abscess (pyogenic and amoebic)
- Microscopic colitis
- Necrotising enterocolitis
- Typhoid & cholera
- Ulcerative colitis
- Volvulus (twisted bowel)