Abstract
One patient with a colonic perforation associated with secondary amyloidosis and ankylosing rheumatoid spondylitis was treated successfully. To our knowledge, this is the first case described of colonic perforation in amyloidosis.
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Sánchez, J.A.G., Molinero, R.M., Sayans, J.D. et al. Colonic perforation by amyloidosis. Dis Colon Rectum 32, 437–440 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02563700
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