Colonic ischemia reveals thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease).

Sauvaget, F; Debray, M; Hervé de Sigalony, J P; Fichelle, J M; Farge, D; Lémann, M; Rouffy, J · Gastroenterology · 1996

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

Two years before the appearance of distal peripheral manifestations of thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease), a young man had acute peritonitis attributable to an ischemic perforation of the sigmoid colon. Only the histological examination of excised tissue was able to differentially diagnose this entity unambiguously.

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