INSPECTING THE COLON FROM INSIDE AND OUT TO SOLVE PYREXIA OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN

Authors
DWARAKANATH AD CHUA E RHODES JM HERSHMAN MJ
Citation
Ad. Dwarakanath et al., INSPECTING THE COLON FROM INSIDE AND OUT TO SOLVE PYREXIA OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 88(11), 1995, pp. 661-662
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
01410768
Volume
88
Issue
11
Year of publication
1995
Pages
661 - 662
Database
ISI
SICI code
0141-0768(1995)88:11<661:ITCFIA>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
A man with longstanding intermittent symptoms of abdominal pain, diarr hoea and pyrexia of unknown origin was diagnosed with the novel techni que of laparoscopic-assisted colonoscopy. At subsequent laparotomy, a longstanding perforation of sigmoid diverticular disease was resected, with resolution of his symptoms.