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Original Article

A Clinicopathological Study of Acute Colitis: The Dilemma of Transient Colitis Syndrome

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Pages 865-869 | Received 12 Jan 1982, Accepted 24 Mar 1982, Published online: 19 Feb 2010
 

Abstract

In a 5-year clinicopathological study of acute colitis involving 238 adults, 42 patients were found to have ‘transient colitis syndrome’. This is a term we have developed to describe those patients who have a short-duration self-limiting acute colitis of abrupt onset and negative bacteriology and which does not recur. Analysis of clinical features suggests an infective aetiology for most cases of transient colitis syndrome. The histology varied from changes of infective colitis to that of inflammatory bowel disease. It is likely that many patients who are now enjoying permanent remission after a single attack of ‘inflammatory bowel disease’ had this transient colitis syndrome.

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