A 50 year-old woman comes in for a colonoscopy by Dr. Laurence Bailen

Question 18 / 32: A 50 year-old woman comes in for a colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer. She is asymptomatic. Multiple diverticula are seen in the colon.

Which of the following best describes the location of diverticula in the colon?

They are most commonly located in the ascending colon

They are most commonly located in the transverse colon

They develop where the vasa rectae penetrate the colonic circular muscle

They develop where the vasa rectae penetrate the anti-mesenteric taenia

They are most commonly located in the cecum

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Explanation:

Diverticula are uncommon in the cecum, ascending colon, and transverse colon. The sigmoid colon is the most common area of the colon where one finds diverticula.

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Attribution: Laurence Scott Bailen, Tamsin Knox, Paul Abourjaily, Fredric D. Gordon,Marshall Kaplan,Andrew G. Plaut. PPY 222 Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology, Spring 2007. (Tufts University OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/47 (Accessed 3 May, 2014). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

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