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Multiple Rectal Ulcers (40 of 110)
Patients with toxic megacolon often present in the emergency department as having abdominal distention superimposed on chronic or acute diarrhea. The diagnosis should be considered in all such patients....
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (41 of 110)
Bowel thickening is a nonspecific finding; it may be encountered in a variety of colitides and other pathologies of the bowel wall. The target sign is also nonspecific; it has been reported in Crohn...
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (43 of 110)
Toxic megacolon is the most severe manifestation of ulcerative colitis, diagnosed when the inflammation extends from the superficial mucosa into the submucosal and muscular layers of the colon. Toxic...
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (53 of 110)
The improvement in surgical technique, but first of all widespread of stapling devices, have shortened the time of operation and simplified the procedure, so that creation of an ileal reservoir is...
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (52 of 110)
Ileostomy Both fulminant colitis and toxic megacolon are regarded as the sequelae of colitis in which irreversible changes in the whole thickness of colonic wall have occurred. These condition both...
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (51 of 110)
Emergency surgery involves total colectomy and end ileostomy as a life-saving procedure. Patients presenting with severe acute colitis for their first attack are the most likely to require colectomy...
Synchronous Cancers, Familial Adenomatous Polyposis...
Surgical Specimen Surgical specimen of the colon after total colectomy with ileostomy. Note the carpetlike appearance of the mucosa covered with polyps. The surgical specimen showed besides of multiple...
Toxic Dilatation of the Colon Superimposed pseudomembranous...
Toxic megacolon (toxic colitis) may also be caused by the following: Radiation colitis Ischemic colitis Nonspecific colitis secondary to chemotherapy Rarely as a complication of collagenous colitis
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