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Colitis cystica profunda is a benign lesion that may be single or multiple and involves the rectum or the colon, or both. It may be confused with a mucus-producing adenocarcinoma and, as such, it may be treated erroneously by a radical surgical procedure. Two cases are presented.
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Read at the meeting of the American Proctologic Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 17 to 19, 1967.
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Muldoon, J.P., Bowman, H.E. & Asman, B. Colitis cystica profunda. Dis Colon Rectum 11, 220–222 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02617299
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