Abstract
Anomalies of the hepatic flexure of the colon are not as common as the wealth of literature on the subject would lead one to expect. The one which we wish to present is of a kind recognized by various names, but most descriptively termed (by the Continental authors) “hepato-diaphragmatic interposition of the colon” (1, 2, and 7). There is a type of redundant colon which shows this same interposition of the colon between the diaphragm and the liver, and which may be permanent or temporary (2, 3). Whether the condition is due to increased length and consequent overlapping or just to malposition, it is undoubtedly anomalous. The etiology is to be found in defective embryological development (2). The condition was first described roentgenographically in 1899 by Beclere (4), and quoted by Tremolieres and Pierron (7) and Just (2), but Curschmann (5) described it fully in 1894 in his classic monograph on the subject. In 1920, Swezey and Black (6) reported a similar case which was detected by one of us in the dia...
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