A CLINICO.PATHOLOGICAL STUDY OF ANAL FISTULAE
A CLINICO.PATHOLOGICAL STUDY OF ANAL FISTULAE
A CLINICO.PATHOLOGICAL STUDY OF ANAL FISTULAE
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folds and protein- losing enteropathy- These patients had serologic,<br />
histologic, or cultrrre evidenoe of CMV infection, or all three.<br />
I- Clinical Presentation and sites of lnvolvement.<br />
Table L Clinical Featwes Suggesting Possible Gasuointestinel<br />
Cytomegalovirus Disease<br />
a) Hi<br />
d immunodeficiency syndrome<br />
: reclptent<br />
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or Can'c'er chemotherapy<br />
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Abdomlnal Darn<br />
Colities or bloodv diarrhea or both<br />
Acute abdorien<br />
c) ' Gastrointestinal lesions<br />
Esonhaqeal ulcer<br />
GastriiulcEr<br />
Gastric ulcer<br />
a- Mouth<br />
Painful etosions or ulcers (Marcusen and sooy,1985 ), enlarged,<br />
painful salivary glands (Pialoux et al, l99l), and odynophagia due to an<br />
epiglottic (Hinnant et al, 1986 ) or posterior pharyngeal ulcer (Laiwani et<br />
al, l99l).<br />
b- Esophagus<br />
A large, solitary, distal esophageal ulcer caused odynophagia or<br />
constant substerlral pain or both in AIDS patients (McDonald et al, 1985).<br />
Esopagnal strichue formation after healing with anti-CMV therapy has<br />
been described (Wilcox et al, 1990 ),<br />
c- Stomrch<br />
Epignsfiic pain, nanrsea, and vomiting (see Table l) (Iwasaki, 1987),<br />
Complications of CMV gasnic ulcers inolude bleeding (Allen et al,<br />
lgSllgastric outlet obstrucfion (Victoria et al, 1985), and perforation.<br />
d- Small Intestine<br />
Asymptomatic trarrsplant recipient wi th endoscopically normal<br />
duodenal mucosa (Franzin et al, l98l ) to a patient with progressive<br />
diarrhea followed by fatal perforation of a severely ulcerated mucosa<br />
(Fernandez et al, 1986). Terminal ileal disease may mimic Crohn disease<br />
clinically, and radiologically (Wajsman et al, 1989). Small-bowel erosions<br />
and ulcerations have been observed in a healthy adult with acute CMV<br />
infection (Spiller et al, 1988) and in an elderly patient with no apparent<br />
immune disorder (Spiegel and Schwabe, 1980). Cytomegalovirus<br />
ulceration of the appendix has occuned as acute appendicitis in AIDS<br />
patients (Lin et al, 1990)<br />
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