Figure 3.

The specimen was delivered to the extraperitoneal space through a Pfannenstiel incision. To determine the obtained redundancy of the colon after splenic flexure mobilization, the measurement was taken from the sacral promontory to the marked spot “A” by using 25-cm long forceps (a). The mobilized colon after splenic flexure mobilization is shown schematically in (b) and (c). The black dot means marked spot “A” before splenic flexure mobilization as initial sigmoid-descending junction and the yellow dot means marked spot “A” after splenic flexure mobilization. The blue dot means sacral promontory. The obtained redundancy of the colon is measured as the distance between the yellow dot and the blue dot (red line).