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We describe a patient with recurrent intestinal bleeding and sigmoid perforation due to amyloidosis. Hartmann’s procedure was carried out with resection of the diseased sigmoid colon and by performing a terminal colostomy. The postoperative course was uneventful, but the patient died 3 months later of lobar pneumonia and multiple organ system failure.
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Accepted: 13 October 1999
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Thaler, W., Schatzer, G., Eder, P. et al. Amyloidosis – an unusual case of recurrent intestinal bleeding and sigmoid perforation: case report with review of the literature. Int J Colorect Dis 14, 297–299 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003840050232
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003840050232