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IRCMJ-Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal. 2010; 12 (6): 664-667
in English
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ABSTRACT
An elderly woman with multiple medical problems developed cytomegalovirus [CMV] colitis following a prolonged hospitalization. She presented life-threatening colonic bleeding mimicking a neoplastic process while the final diagnosis was CMV colitis. This is an uncommon presentation of CMV colitis in an immunocompetent patient needing a high index of suspicion to proceed early with proper diagnosis and therapy