Antibiotic-associated colitis with normal-appearing rectum
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
- Vol. 24 (3) , 198-200
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02962335
Abstract
A patient was recently seen with pseudomembranous colitis. He had severe disease of the proximal colon, with normal-appearing rectum and distal sigmoid, 3 wk after administration of prophylactic antibiotics for surgery. The patient improved after discontinuing the antibiotics. Fiberoptic colonoscopy should be performed in patients suspected of having pseudomembranous colitis, even when sigmoidoscopy results are normal.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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