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A 37-year-old man with fibrostenotic ileal Crohn’s disease is taken to the operating room for ileocecectomy for treatment of chronic intermittent partial small bowel obstruction. Preoperatively, the patient has no evidence of colonic Crohn’s disease. Intraoperatively, the patient is found to have an ileosigmoid fistula. The sigmoid colon is otherwise without evidence of Crohn’s disease. The best next step in management of the sigmoid colon is:

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