title: [Post-amoxicilline neutropenic rectitis in an immunocompetent patient: a case report].
abstract: We report a 38-year-old immunocompetent patient who presented with a neutropenic rectitis after a treatment by amoxicillin for nasopharyngitis. Neutropenic colitis is a digestive wall inflammation, preferentially localized in the ileo-caecal area and the right colon, which leads to necrosis and sepsis, and usually occurs in neutropenic patients treated by chemotherapy with an incidence of 6%. It is a serious and often lethal disease. The treatment is supportive, and surgery is limited to the occurrence of complications (perforation, bleeding). Neutropenic colitis occurring in a rectal location after antibiotic therapy in an immunocompetent patient has been rarely described.
authors.affiliation: Service de pathologie digestive, hôpital d'instruction des armées Clermont Tonnerre, rue du colonel-Fontferrier, 29240 Brest Naval, France. cnemassoure@hotmail.fr
authors.forename: M-P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Massoure
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sockeel
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Richecoeur
authors.forename: A-S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Lipovac
authors.forename: J-A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Bronstein