Summary and Conclusions
The need for accurate laboratory and clinical studies to eliminate amebiasis as a factor in chronic intestinal disturbances and the variable clinical manifestations of the disease are stressed. A complete physical examination including sigmoidoscopy, stool examination and air contrast studies of the colon should be made in all cases of intestinal disturbances. Cases of adenoma, carcinoma, coccygodynia, proctalgia fugax, and postoperative abdominal fistulas associated with amebic infection are presented. Positive stool specimens and favorable response to antiamebic therapy with Milibis with Aralen confirmed the diagnosis. All patients tolerated medication well and the infection usually cleared within two weeks after administration of two tablets of Milibis with Aralen three times daily followed by Diodoquin, 10 grains, three times daily for 20 days and Carbarsone, 0.25 Gm., three times daily for 10 days—85 per cent of patients so treated were cured.
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Read at the Clinical Session of the meeting of the American Proctologic Society, Amsterdam, Holland, July 4, 1959.
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Jenkins, J.T. Chronic intestinal and other disturbances of amebic origin. Dis Colon Rectum 3, 152–158 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02616548
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