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Inspecting the colon from inside and out to solve pyrexia of unknown origin
A D Dwarakanath1, E Chua, J M Rhodes
1Department of Medicine, University of Liverpool, England.
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
|November 1, 1995
Abstract:
A man with longstanding intermittent symptoms of abdominal pain, diarrhoea and pyrexia of unknown origin was diagnosed with the novel technique of laparoscopic-assisted colonoscopy. At subsequent laparotomy, a longstanding perforation of sigmoid diverticular disease was resected, with resolution of his symptoms.