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Rare disease
CASE REPORT
Tubular sigmoid duplication in an adult man: an interesting incidental finding
  1. Amani Asour,
  2. Hyun-Kyung Kim,
  3. Shobhit Arya,
  4. Clive Hepworth
  1. Colorectal Surgery, BHR University Hospitals NHS Trust, Queen’s Hospital, Romford, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Amani Asour, amani.ashur{at}gmail.com

Summary

A 61-year-old man attended an outpatient colorectal clinic for a chronic, non-specific abdominal pain, associated with rectal bleeding. He underwent a number of investigations including a CT pneumocolon, which revealed an incidental finding of 20 cm of additional sigmoid colon. This case is interesting because tubular sigmoid duplication is an extremely unusual condition, rarely diagnosed in adults; only a few cases have been reported of this condition in the adult population. Our team chose to treat this patient conservatively, in order to avoid putting the patient at risk of an unnecessary surgery.

  • congenital disorders
  • gastrointestinal system

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-219474

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors The role of all authors was crucial for completing the case report and eventually submitting it for publication. AA took the initiative for writing the case report and submitting it. AA and H-KK did online research for literature, wrote and revised the case report. SA and CH did the overall supervision and enhanced the text with important comments.

    • Competing interests None declared.

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    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.