Clostridium difficile small bowel enteritis occurring after total colectomy.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Clostridium difficile infection is usually associated with antibiotic therapy and is almost always limited to the colonic mucosa. Small bowel enteritis is rare: only 9 cases have been previously cited in the literature. This report describes a case of C. difficile small bowel enteritis that occurred in a patient after total colectomy and reviews the 9 previously reported cases of C. difficile enteritis.
Medical subject headings
- Clostridioides difficile
- Colectomy
- Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous
- Intestine, Small