PMID: 9446407Jan 1, 1997Paper

Inflammatory tumors of the colon--diagnostic and therapeutic problem in clinical materials

Wiadomości lekarskie : organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego
G BudzińskiA Caban

Abstract

38 patients with inflammatory tumours of the large bowel (ITLB) were studied, it is 2.4% of all patients operated in our department for the large bowel tumours. 28 patients (73.7%) underwent elective surgery, 10 (26.3%) had emergency operations. One-stage operations were performed in 26 cases (68.4%) and two-stages operations in 12 (31.6%). Permanent colostomies were performed in 4 patients (10.5%). Histological examination indicated chronic colitis in 19 cases (50.0%), mostly on divercular disease basis, Crohn's disease in 7 (18.4%), profound ulcerative colitis in 5 (13.1%), actinomycosis in 3 (7.9%) and typhlitis in 2 (5.3%).

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