Colonic ischemia reveals thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease).
Two years before the appearance of distal peripheral manifestations of thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease), a young man had acute peritonitis attributable to an ischemic perforation of the sigmoid colon. Only the histological examination of excised tissue was able to differentially diagnose this entity unambiguously.
Sauvaget
F
F
Service de Médicine Interne, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France.
Debray
M
M
Hervé de Sigalony
J P
JP
Fichelle
J M
JM
Farge
D
D
Lémann
M
M
Rouffy
J
J
D000328:Adult; D012809:Colon, Sigmoid / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007416:Intestinal Perforation / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D007511:Ischemia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D012810:Sigmoid Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D013919:Thromboangiitis Obliterans / Q000150:complications*