Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Volume 7, Issue 9 , Page A20, September 2009

Melanosis Coli

  • Dan Li

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, University of California, San Francisco, California
    • Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California
    • ,
  • L. Walden Browne

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, California
    • ,
  • Uri Ladabaum

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, University of California, San Francisco, California
    • Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California

published online 15 December 2008.

Screening colonoscopy was performed on a 35-year-old woman whose mother died from colon cancer at age 34. She had life-long constipation and had undergone a right hemicolectomy at age 33 because of cecal volvulus. Physical examination revealed a well-healed surgical scar in the midline of her abdomen and was otherwise unremarkable.

 

 Conflicts of interest The authors disclose no conflicts.

PII: S1542-3565(08)01230-5

doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2008.11.030

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Volume 7, Issue 9 , Page A20, September 2009