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- Title
Necrotizing Amebic Colitis with Pseudomembrane Formation.
- Authors
Friedrich, Ivan A.; Korsten, Mark A.; Gottfried, Edward B.
- Abstract
We report a case of necrotizing amebic colitis with the sigmoidoscopic finding of a confluent, grayish pseudomembrane. The patient was referred from a chronic mental institution, which represents the patient population most susceptible to fulminant amebic dysentery in the United States. The pseudomembrane was a reflection of extensive mucosal necrosis and resolved with amebicidal therapy.
- Subjects
UNITED States; NECROSIS; AMEBIASIS treatment; COLITIS; COLON diseases
- Publication
American Journal of Gastroenterology (Springer Nature), 1980, Vol 74, Issue 6, p529
- ISSN
0002-9270
- Publication type
Article