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Implications of involvement of small bowel in ulcerative colitis

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

Summary and Conclusions

In a series of 99 patients operated upon for ulcerative colitis, 29 had ileal involvement. X-ray examination is not of great diagnostic value.

At operation, gross external evidence of ileal involvement was present in only one third of the patients. Inspection of the opened ileum during surgical exposure is mandatory.

The long-range mortality rate was five times greater in patients with ileal involvement than in those in whom the small intestine was not involved.

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  1. From the Department of Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan

    James Barron M.D. & Laurence S. Fallis M.D.

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  1. James Barron M.D.
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Read at the meeting of the American Proctologic Society, San Francisco, California, May 20 to 23, 1963.

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Barron, J., Fallis, L.S. Implications of involvement of small bowel in ulcerative colitis. Dis Colon Rectum 7, 290–292 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02630534

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