“…Several surgical techniques for colectomy and anastomosis, such as a resection with side-to-side or end-to-end anastomosis have been described (11,12,17). Multiple objective parameters to determine the colonic viability and prognosis, including the peripheral lactate values and histopathology evaluation of pelvic flexure biopsies, have been studied (2,7,12,14,15). Nevertheless, the clinical decisions for a colectomy are most often made based on a subjective intraoperative assessment of the colonic viability, such as the appearance of the bowel wall, particularly the mucosa, because of the lack of availability and predictability of the objective measurements for intraoperative diagnosis to predict the outcomes of LCV surgery (6,7,14,17).…”