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SUBMITTER: Milne DM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7150723 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Milne David Malcolm DM Rattan Jason J Muddeen Alyssa A Rambhajan Amrit A AA
Case reports in surgery 20200331
Eosinophilic colitis is an inflammatory condition in which the wall of the colon becomes infiltrated by eosinophils which stain densely pink on microscopy. It is an uncommon clinical entity which has a long list of differential diagnoses. We present a case of a patient whose biopsy at colonoscopy revealed eosinophilic colitis which led to a delay in the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of colon cancer. A 35-year-old male presented with a six-week history of right lower quadrant abdominal pain ...[more]