The Open Colorectal Cancer Journal
2012, 5 : 5-8Published online 2012 February 29. DOI: 10.2174/1876820201205010005
Publisher ID: TOCOLCJ-5-5
Case Report: Unusual Presentation of Complicated Diverticulitis at Colostomy Site
Department of Surgery, Yonsei
University College of Medicine, 50 Yonsei-ro Seodaemun-gu 120-752,
Seoul, South Korea.
ABSTRACT
we report a case of a 75 years old male diagnosed on 2006 with a low rectal cancer and operated with an abdominoperineal resection procedure at that time. Since then, he was doing fine with his end colostomy until 29/07/2011, when he was presented with stoma site redness, pain, tenderness and fever with loose stool; the CT scan showed a distal colon and stoma diverticulitis and abscess lateral to stoma; the patient was managed with drainage, soft diet and antibiotic till it resolved and he was discharged home in a healthy condition.