Year 2016 / Volume 108 / Number 10
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Nodular colitis: endoscopic image an unusual finding

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L.A. Loza Vargas, Henar Núñez Rodríguez, Marina Benito Sanz, Tomás Zamora Martínez, Pilar Díez Redondo, Manuel Pérez Miranda,

Abstract
An 82-year-old male with a history of high blood pressure, COPD, chronic myeloid leukemia, and stage-4 chronic renal failure. Admitted to hospital for lower-limb cellulitis and severe COPD exacerbation, he received antibiotic therapy and bronchodilators. During his hospital stay he developed severe anemia and had an hematochezia event with no diarrhea. A complete colonoscopy found small (4-7 mm) nacreous elevated lesions, circumferential in shape, in the cecum and ascending colon with some bleeding stigmata and submucosal bleeding suggestive of infectious colitis; stool culture was negative and Clostridium difficile toxins were positive. The condition was histologically confirmed.
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Loza Vargas L, Núñez Rodríguez H, Benito Sanz M, Zamora Martínez T, Díez Redondo P, Pérez Miranda M, et all. Nodular colitis: endoscopic image an unusual finding. 3884/2015


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Received: 09/06/2015

Accepted: 20/08/2015

Published: 30/09/2016

Article revision time: 72 days

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