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N M Medline

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PubMed1976

Pseudomembranous colitis associated with antibiotics.

Colitis associated with antibiotics, particularly with lincomycin and clindamycin, is a well established entity. The colitis may be clinically and radiologically very difficult to distinguish from inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. A wide spectrum of pathological features is described with various antibiotics. However, the pathological picture in the pseudomembranous form is quite distinctive. The most important histological findings include a "mushroom-like" or "explosive" appearance of the pseudomembrane with a sudden transition to normal mucosa adjacent to the lesion. Rectal biopsy is both an accurate and a rapid method of establishing the diagnosis.

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PubMed1971

Alcoholic hepatitis.

Clinical and pathological data from four cases of fatal non-cirrhotic alcoholic hepatitis are presented. The patients were relatively young but had a long history of excessive alcohol intake, and the disease had an acute onset which progressed inexorably to death in hepatic and renal failure.At autopsy the livers were enlarged but non-cirrhotic. The important histological criteria for the diagnosis of alcoholic hepatitis are a panlobular polymorphonuclear inflammatory cell infiltrate, the presence of Mallory material (alcoholic hyaline) and fine fibrosis surrounding small groups of liver cells. The latter finding may be more marked in the centrolobular zone and result in the picture of central hyaline sclerosis.

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