Selected Reading
- Knight R: Amebiasis. In Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 15th ed. Wyngaarden JB, Smith LH Jr (Eds). WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 1979, pp 589–594
- Brooks JL, Kozarek RM: Amebic colitis: Preventing morbidity and mortality from fulminant disease. Postgrad Med 78:267, 1985
- Jones TC: Protozoal diseases. In Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, Mandell GL, Douglass RG, Bennett JE (Eds). Wiley, New York, 1985, pp 1506–1511
- Storer EH, Goldberg SM, Nivatvongs S: Colon, rectum, anus. In Principles of Surgery, 4th ed, Schwartz SI (Ed). WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 1984, pp 1178–1184
- Roth JLA et al: Toxic megacolon in ulcerative colitis. Gastroenterology 37:239, 1959
- Wruble LD et al: Toxic dilation of the colon in a case of amebiasis. N Engl J Med 275:926, 1966
- Krogstad DJ, Spencer HC Jr. Healy GR: Current concepts in parasitology. Amebiasis. N Engl J Med 298:262, 1978
- Owen RL, Brandborg LL: Parasitic diseases. In Gastrointestinal Disease, Pathophysiology, and Management, 3rd ed, Sleisenger MH, Fordtran JS (Eds). WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 1983, vol 2, pp 994–995
- Marshak RH, Lester CJ: Megacolon complications of ulcerative colitis. Gastroenterology 16:768, 1950
- Lumb G, Protheroe RHB, Ramsay GS: Ulcerative colitis with dilation of colon. Br J Surg 43:182, 1955
- Lewis HL, Clement S, Dobbins WO: Acute colitis: A logical approach to diagnosis and management. Postgrad Med 70:145, 1981
- Case 32–1977: Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. N Engl J Med 297:322, 1977
- Drugs for parasitic infections. Med Lett Drugs Ther 30:16, 1988