title: [A patient with abnormal skin discolouring around a colostomy].
abstract: In this article we present a case of a 83-year-old female patient with an abnormal skin discolouring around the colostomy, which we diagnosed as ectopic parastomal varices due to underlying primary biliary cirrhosis.
authors.affiliation: Groene Hart Ziekenhuis, afd. Chirurgie, Gouda.
authors.forename: Stefanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dekkers
authors.forename: Coen I M
authors.initials: CI
authors.lastname: Baeten
authors.forename: Roderick F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Schmitz
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003125:Colostomy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008105:Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014648:Varicose Veins / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*