title: The place of isolated rectal excision in the treatment of ulcerative colitis.
abstract: Four patients with ulcerative proctocolitis apparently confined to the rectum had incapacitating diarrhoea which was treated by rectosigmoid resection and a left iliac colostomy. In 3 patients disease recurred within a year, but responded well to conservation management. One of the patients required colectomy and ileostomy 5 years after the initial operation.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000601:surgery*; D012809:Colon, Sigmoid / Q000601:surgery*; D003125:Colostomy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D012007:Rectum / Q000601:surgery*