rectum
Radiation Proctosigmoiditis (6 of 14)
Radiation is a common therapy administered to patients with malignant disease in the pelvis, within or outside the abdomen. It may be administered alone or in conjunction with various types of chemotherapy,...
Radiation Proctosigmoiditis (5 of 14)
Argon Plasma Coagulation treatment, in a case of post radiation proctitis, due to prostatic carcinoma. Radiation proctosigmoiditis is a frequent complication of radiation therapy, used in the treatment...
Radiation Proctosigmoiditis (4 of 14)
Argon Plasma Coagulation beam, in a case of post radiation proctitis, due to prostatic carcinoma 3 years before. The patient underwent radiotherapy. Six months later that patient started with rectal...
Radiation Proctosigmoiditis (3 of 14)
Radiation Proctitis. Post-irradiation proctopathy in a 71 year-old man, who had underwent radiation therapy for prostatic carcinoma. The image and the video display hemorrhage, clots and telangiectasias.
Radiation Proctosigmoiditis (2 of 14)
Radiation Proctosigmoiditis. The typical endoscopic appearance is characterized by telangiectasias and hemorrhagic mucosal changes. The symptoms may arise months to years after the end of radiotherapy...
Radiation Proctosigmoiditis (1 of 14)
Post-irradiation proctopathy in a 71 year-old man, who underwent radiation therapy for prostatic carcinoma. The image and the video display hemorrhage, clots and telangiectasias.
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (70 of 110)
Mural thickening is a common manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease; in general, however, ulcerative colitis produces less wall thickening than does Crohn disease.
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (69 of 110)
Another picture of the surgical specimen from the rectosigmoid juntion to the terminal ilium.
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (68 of 110)
The clinical severity of ulcerative colitis depends on both the length of colon involved and the severity of colonic inflammation. The symptomatic criteria most commonly used to define the severity...
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (67 of 110)
Pseudopolyps are seen here in a case of severe ulcerative colitis. The remaining mucosa has been ulcerated away and is hyperemic. A colonoscopic view of active ulcerative colitis, but not so eroded...
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (66 of 110)
Approach to the pseudopolyps and the extensive ulcers At higher magnification, the pseudopolyps can be seen clearly as raised red islands of inflamed mucosa. Between the pseudopolyps is only remaining...
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (65 of 110)
The opened resected specimen of the colon with dilatation and extensive ulcerations and pseudopolyposis. Inflammation with ulcerative colitis tends to be continuous along the mucosal surface and tends...
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (64 of 110)
Extensive ulcerative colitis (UC) with pseudopolyposis The severity of the inflammatory reaction seen correlates well with the clinical course of the disease. Most of the cardinal features of UC include:...
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (63 of 110)
The opened colon shows numerous enlarged or elongated polyps Ulcerative Colitis (UC) Generalized polyposis, generally considered to be an asymptomatic sequela of ulcerative colitis, can also be...
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (62 of 110)
Extensive Pseudopolyposis At section there were islands or pseudopolyps of mucosa, red dark, a lot with ulceration and perforation at the level of the transverse colon (sutures site) at the cecum...