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Giant colon in an adult psychotic patient with necropsy report

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Whether the megacolon in this patient was due to a congenital defect in the innervation of the colon and its sphincters, or to a defect in the innervation secondary to the “brain fever” suffered at two months of age is conjectural. However, it is quite probable that the mental deficiency associated with poor personal hygiene and pica was an important contributory cause of the megacolon in this case.

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    Amil C. Bach, Harold M. Imerman & Jerry J. Kearns

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From the Pathology and Coroner’s Departments, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, I11.

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Bach, A.C., Imerman, H.M. & Kearns, J.J. Giant colon in an adult psychotic patient with necropsy report. Jour. D. D. 7, 523–525 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03014585

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