title: [Initial manifestation of thromboangiitis obliterans as necrotizing colitis].
abstract: Necrotizing colitis as primary manifestation of Buerger's disease. We report the disease process of a 41 year old woman, who was referred to our clinic with intermittent claudication of the leg. She has been an excessive smoker since early youth. Three years ago a hemicolectomy was carried out because of a necrotizing colitis. The clinical, angiographic and histologic findings are presented. Finally the frequency of intestinal Buerger's disease and the types of clinical course are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Angiologie, II. Medizinische Klinik, Krankenhaus Dresden-Friedrichstadt, Dresden. muenchdirk@nexgo.de
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Münch
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Altmann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003082:Colectomy; D003106:Colon / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D020345:Enterocolitis, Necrotizing / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013919:Thromboangiitis Obliterans / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Erstmanifestation einer Thrombangiitis obliterans als nekrotisierende Kolitis.