Toxic Dilatation Of The Colon Superimposed Pseudomembranous Colitis (1 z 17)

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Case description

This is the case of a 53 year-old female, with Chronic Renal Insufficiency, was hospitalized due to acute abdomen in a national hospital of social insurance (seguro social ISSS) in El Salvador, the abdominal ultrasound and the cat scan displayed colon dilation, patient underwent abdominal laparotomy, with no specified finding except thickening of the walls of the colon, one week after the surgery, patient initiates with lower gi bleeding. Because of the colonoscopes that used in that hospital were under reparation a colonoscopy was performed in our office finding the characteristics here described.

tags: colon colonoscopy dilatation Pseudomembranous USG

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