Remarks on clinical characteristics, diagnosis and treatment of atypical chronic ulcerous colitis

ABSTRACT

From June 2001 to March 2004, Military Hospital 108 had performed flexible colonoscopy on 1056 subjects and had detected 18 cases (12 males, 6 females) of atypical ulcerous colitis. Clinical manifestations bleeding stool, irregular diarrhoea or constifution, abdomen pain, weight loss... were most usual signs. Paraclinical signs occurred prevalently only in patients with numberous acute lesions in colon. 15/18 patients (83.4%) tolarated corticoid and salazopirin. 13/15 patients recovered completely without recurrence and without colon damage in colonoscopy. 5/18 patients (27.7%) was in acute stage.