Dolichokolie

Classification according to ICD-10
Q43.8	Other specified congenital malformations of the intestine dolichocolon
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

Dolichocolon is an abnormal length of the colon with a normal diameter (synonym: Dolichocolon , also Sigma elongatum ). Dolichocoly was often diagnosed as the cause of chronic constipation in the past, and the advice was then to surgically shorten the colon. Today this is generally seen as a fallacy.

literature

• Roland Zielke : The sigma elongatum and its connection with chronic constipation in children . Dissertation Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster 1988, DNB 890122695 .

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