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Variants in the position of the colon or segments of colon are often observed during CTC; although most of these anomalies have no clinical importance, a significant number are related factors to explain an incomplete colonoscopy, mild abdominal pain or unsual clinical presentations. Positional abnormalities could be divided on two groups, due to external displacement or congenital anomalies either positional anomalies related to the process of intestinal rotation or the process of intestinal fixation of colon, normally named as intestinal malrotation. Several clinical examples of variants in position of the colon and their clinical relevance are discussed.
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Bouzas, R. (2013). Anatomical Variants. In: Neri, E., Faggioni, L., Bartolozzi, C. (eds) CT Colonography Atlas. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11149-5_2
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