Twitter Google Share on Facebook Acronyms rec·to·sig·moid junc·tion the site at which the sigmoid colon becomes the rectum; usually takes the form of an acute angle, demarcated externally by a discontinuation of appendices epiploicae, a spreading out of the teniae coli to completely encircl...
Cases of sigmoid colon cancer were retrieved based on the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O-3) code; namely, “Site recode ICD-O-3/WHO 2008" (Sigmoid colon). A total of 5953 patients with pT4b sigmoid colon cancer between 2004 and 2016 were initially identified ...