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Presentation of Case

A 60-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of left-sided abdominal pain and diarrhea.

The patient had been in stable health until three or four years earlier, when he began to have intermittent pain in the left flank that radiated to the left upper and lower quadrants, without a change in bowel habit. Evaluation included a colonoscopic examination, an intravenous urographic study, and a computed tomographic (CT) scan of the abdomen, which were negative. Three months before admission severe, diffuse abdominal pain occurred, and the patient was seen at another hospital. He passed fresh blood through the rectum frequently . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Differential Diagnosis

Clinical Diagnosis

Dr. Ashby C. Moncure's Diagnosis

Pathological Discussion

Anatomical Diagnoses

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