Isolated colonic leukocytoclastic vasculitis causing segmental megacolon: Report of a rare case

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 167-171

  Vlahos, Kostas ^a   Theodoropoulos, George E ^a,d   Lazaris, Andreas Ch ^c   Agapitos, Emmanouil ^c   Christakopoulos, Antonios ^b   Papatheodorou, Dimitrios ^b   Kalogreas, George ^b   Tahteris, Emmanouil ^a  

^a Department of Surgery   (Greece)

^b Samos General Hospital   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Colectomy; Colonic dilation; Fibrinoid necrosis; Hypersensitivity angiitis; Leukocytoclastic vasculitis; Megacolon; Nuclear dust

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON RESECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING COLON; DISEASE COURSE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC VASCULITIS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LITERATURE; MALE; MEGACOLON; SMALL INTESTINE; TRANSVERSE COLON; ALLERGIC VASCULITIS; PATHOLOGY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; COLECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MEGACOLON; VASCULITIS, HYPERSENSITIVITY;

EID: 13744252439     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-004-0758-x     Document Type: Article

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