title: Colonic ischemia reveals thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease).
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Service de Médicine Interne, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sauvaget
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Debray
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Hervé de Sigalony
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Fichelle
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Farge
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lémann
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rouffy
mesh_terms: 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*