title: Acute fulminating amoebic colitis: survival after total colectomy.
abstract: Acute fulminating amoebic colitis is a very uncommon complication of amoebiasis. Most patients die, with or without surgery. We report such a patient who survived after total colectomy. If an excision of diseased colon is done, an exteriorising procedure should be added and primary anastomosis avoided.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D003082:Colectomy; D003106:Colon / Q000473:pathology; D004404:Dysentery, Amebic / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged