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Volume 333:1645 December 14, 1995 Number 24
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Giant Colonic Diverticulum

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To the Editor: The legend to the Image in Clinical Medicine by Ueda and Hall showing a giant colonic diverticulum (July 27 issue)1 suggests that the patient's recurrent episodes of pain were causally related to the giant diverticulum of the sigmoid colon. Although that may be true, a noninflamed diverticulum that has not undergone torsion, even if it has enlarged, is unlikely to cause such acute episodes of pain.

The term "acute abdomen" used to describe the circumstances that led to an emergency operation is an unfortunate one, giving no clue to the cause of the pain. The barium enema . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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