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To the Editor: The cause of ulcerative colitis remains unknown. Direct exposure to alimentary antigens or intestinal bacterial flora may trigger the mucosal inflammation in persons who are predisposed to ulcerative colitis.¹ We describe a case of ulcerative colitis involving the patient's sigmoid neovagina, in which the findings are evidence against either of these hypotheses.

A 60-year-old woman presented with a four-month history of abdominal pain in the left lower quadrant and bloody diarrhea. She had undergone vaginal reconstruction with a sigmoid-colon autotransplant at the age of 25 years because of congenital vaginal agenesis. She had never smoked and was . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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