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Diversion colitis as a trigger for ulcerative colitis
  1. S L JOWETT,
  2. I COBDEN
  1. Department of Gastroenterology
  2. North Tyneside General Hospital, Rake Lane
  3. North Shields, Tyne and Wear NE29 8NH, UK

    https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.46.2.293b

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      Editor,—Lim and colleagues recently presented three cases of diversion colitis which seemed to act as a trigger for instream ulcerative colitis (Gut1999;44:279–282). We would like to present a fourth case which has recently come to our attention and which adds to the literature.

      In 1994, a 75 year old woman presented with a five year history of faecal soiling and urinary incontinence. A former smoker of 50 years, the patient had had a traumatic forceps delivery …

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