Acute fulminating amoebic colitis: survival after total colectomy.
- 1 March 1985
- Vol. 26 (3) , 301-303
- https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.26.3.301
Abstract
Acute fulminating amoebic colitis is a very uncommon complication of amoebiasis. Most patients die, with or without surgery. We report such a patient who survived after total colectomy. If an excision of diseased colon is done, an exteriorising procedure should be added and primary anastomosis avoided.Keywords
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