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Localized colonic perforation following renal transplantation

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

Abstract

Well-contained abdominal abscesses developed in two renal transplant patients ten years and six months, respectively, after transplantation. Investigations including gastrointestinal series and CT scan demonstrated cystic collections within the abdominal cavity. Laparotomy in each case revealed an infected cystic mass arising from the sigmoid colon. In both patients deroofing the abscess and, in one patient, defunctioning colostomy were performed. Both patients did well in the postoperative period.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Radiology, and Nephrology, Toronto Western Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto Western Medical Bldg., 25 Leonard Avenue, Suite 103, M5T 2R2, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    H. S. Himal M.D., F.R.C.S.(C), D. J. Wise M.D., F.R.C.P.(C) & C. Cardella M.D., F.R.C.P.(C)

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Himal, H.S., Wise, D.J. & Cardella, C. Localized colonic perforation following renal transplantation. Dis Colon Rectum 26, 461–464 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02556527

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