Clinical Case Reports (Nov 2019)

Cytomegalovirus colitis presented with triserial longitudinal hemorrhage in an autopsy case of adult T‐cell leukemia

  • Kenji Yorita,
  • Akira Ishihara,
  • Takanori Toyama

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2423
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 11
pp. 2252 – 2253

Abstract

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Abstract Longitudinal mucosal and submucosal hemorrhage along the taeniae coli is a potential colonic manifestation of cytomegalovirus infection in immunocompromised patients. When diagnosing cytomegalovirus colitis in immunocompromised patients, endoscopic biopsy on taeniae coli seems effective for viral detection.

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