Posted by BRAINY GROUP on May 31, 2001 at 14:39:15:
differential diagnosis of rectal lesions
options
a) amebic dysentery
b) pseudomembranous colitis
c) Crohn's involvement of the colon
d) ulcerative proctitis
e) ulcerative pancolitis
f) diverticular disease
g) cecal carcinoma
h) sigmoid carcinoma
1. A business man has just returned from a business trip to Asia. he now develops copious watery and bloody diarrhea
2. A middle aged man develops constipation with overflow dairrhea and bright red bleeding per rectum. A barium enema reveals an ulcerated stricture in the sigmoid colon
3. a young man develops bloody diarrhea. A rigid sigmoidoscopy examination revealed granular ulceration in the sigmoid colon with proximal sparing
4. A middle aged woman has been on several antibiotic treatments recently because of a persistent pneumonia. She now develops a severe watery dairrhea. Colonoscopy reveals whitish plaques scattered throughout the colon
5. An elderly woman is found to be anemic. As part of her examination she has a barium enema which reveals a mass lesion in the ascending colon
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