Idiopathic intramural hematoma of sigmoid colon

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  • Giuseppe De Santis
  • Federico Sista
  • Antonio Giuliani
  • Sergio Leardi
چکیده

Intramural hematoma of the colon is rare: only 27 cases have been reported in the literature in the last 20 years. Blunt abdominal trauma, anticoagulant therapy and blood dyscrasia are the common causes 1-10. Cases of uncertain origin are extremely uncommon 11. Symptoms and clinic signs are not specific, presenting usually as bowel occlusion 2-3,11. Therefore, intramural hematoma of the colon raises particular diagnostic and therapeutic issues 1-3. This study wish to aid more knowledge about this rare disease. Therefore we report one recently observed case of “idiopathic” sigmoid intramural hematoma, and review the literature. Case report

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تاریخ انتشار 2011