A 79-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with right lower quadrant abdominal pain of several hours' duration. She has a temperature of 101.7º C and has tenderness to palpation in the right lower quadrant of her abdomen. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan reveals diverticulitis of the colon. Where are diverticula most frequently found in the colon?

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Diverticula are most frequently found in the sigmoid colon. This is due to the high intraluminal pressures in this part of the colon, which predispose to the formation of diverticula.

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