What is Colon
The colon is the large intestine; it is the lower part of your digestive tract. The intestine is a long, tubular organ consisting of the small intestine, the colon (large intestine) and the rectum, which is the last part of the colon. After food is swallowed, it begins to be digested in the stomach and then empties into the small intestine, where the nutritional part of the food is absorbed. The remaining waste moves through the colon to the rectum and is expelled from the body. The colon and rectum absorb water and hold the waste until you are ready to expel it.
What are Colon diseases
Appendicitis
Diverticolitis
Left or Right Colon and rectal adeno-carcinoma
Bening polypoid lesion of colon
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
Surgery
Each type of diseases can be treat in Laparoscopic aproach, the principal kind of colon surgery are:
- Appendectomy
- Left Emicolectomy
- Right Emicolectomy
- PanColectomy
In some cases such as rectal cancer or complicated diverticolitis the surgeon must create a ileostomy or colostomy that are an external derivation of the intestine.
What is laparoscopic colon resection?
A technique known as minimally invasive laparoscopic colon surgery allows surgeons to perform many common colon procedures through small incisions. Depending on the type of procedure, patients may leave the hospital in a few days and return to normal activities more quickly than patients recovering from open surgery. In most laparoscopic colon resections, surgeons operate through 4 or 5 small openings (each about a quarter inch) while watching an enlarged image of the patient's internal organs on a television monitor. In some cases, one of the small openings may be lengthened to 2 or 3 inches to complete the procedure.
Prof. Giusto Pignata
