Inspecting the Colon from inside and Out to Solve Pyrexia of Unknown Origin | Zendy

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Inspecting the Colon from inside and Out to Solve Pyrexia of Unknown Origin

Author(s) -

A D Dwarakanath,

Eddy Chua,

Jonathan M. Rhodes,

MJ Hershman

Publication year - 1995

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107689508801115

Subject(s) - medicine , laparotomy , colonoscopy , perforation , sigmoid colon , abdominal pain , diverticular disease , laparoscopy , surgery , lower abdominal pain , general surgery , colorectal cancer , rectum , materials science , cancer , punching , metallurgy

A man with longstanding intermittent symptoms of abdominal pain, diarrhoea and pyrexia of unknown origin was diagnosed with the novel technique of laparoscopic-assisted colonoscopy. At subsequent laparotomy, a longstanding perforation of sigmoid diverticular disease was resected, with resolution of his symptoms.

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