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[Neutropenic enterocolitis]
G Rexroth1, H M Altmannsberger, E O Hassenstein
1Medizinische Klinik, Krankenhauses Nordwest, Frankfurt/M.
Zeitschrift Fur Gastroenterologie
|April 9, 1998
Abstract:
A 58-year old patient with metastasizing squamous cell carcinoma of the left lung developed fever, diffuse abdominal pain and profuse diarrhea while treated with paclitaxel and radiation therapy. A sigmoidoscopy was performed to exclude pseudomembranous colitis but showed multiple mucosal petechiae. Histologic examination disclosed neutropenic colitis. Conservative treatment was successful.