SUPPURATIVE PYLEPHLEBITIS WITH BACTEREMIA IN CHRONIC ULCERATIVE COLITIS

1 July 1950

journal article
research article
Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine

Vol. 33 (1) , 211-216
https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-33-1-211

Abstract

A case of chronic ulcerative colitis with unusual complications of suppurative pylephlebitis, Escherichia coli bacteremia, perforation and peritonitis. The process is probably initiated in the submucosal branches of the mesenteric vein located within the infected bowel wall.

Keywords

BACTEREMIA
ULCERATIVE COLITIS
PYLEPHLEBITIS