Abstract
A man with longstanding intermittent symptoms of abdominal pain, diarrhoea and pyrexia of unknown origin was diagnosed with the novel technique of laparoscopic-assisted colonoscopy. At subsequent laparotomy, a longstanding perforation of sigmoid diverticular disease was resected, with resolution of his symptoms.
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