Inspecting the colon from inside and out to solve pyrexia of unknown origin.
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.
Department of Medicine, University of Liverpool, England.
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Dwarakanath
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Chua
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Rhodes
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Hershman
D003113:Colonoscopy; D004239:Diverticulitis, Colonic / Q000150:complications*; D005335:Fever of Unknown Origin / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012810:Sigmoid Diseases / Q000150:complications*