A 21-year-old man receives a penetrat- ing knife wound in the abdomen and is injured in both the superior mesenteric artery and the vagus nerve. Which portion of the colon would most likely be impaired by this injury?

(A) Ascending and descending colons
(B) Transverse and sigmoid colons
(C) Descending and sigmoid colons
(D) Ascending and transverse colons
(E) Transverse and descending colons


Ans: (D) Ascending and transverse colons

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