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case_images: Computed Tomography (CT) showing mural thickening with peri-colic fat stranding (Red arrow) involving rectum (A) and sigmoid colon (B)
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case_images: A computed tomography scan of the patient showed wall thickening involving the cecum to the rectum with vascular engorgement and surrounding peri-colic fat stranding (Figures 1A, 1B).
case_images: Colonoscopy suggestive of edematous, erythematous mucosa with complete loss of vascularity with multiple superficial and deep ulcerations which bleed on touch involving sigmoid colon and rectum (Mayo Grade 3 changes)
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case_images: Histopathological examination showing basal plasmacytosis (A), cryptitis (B), and cryptic hyperplasia (C)
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case_images: Histopathological examination of the biopsy specimen showed loss of mucin, mucosal ulcerations, basal plasmacytosis, dense mixed infiltrate with cryptitis, crypt abscesses, crypt distortion, and cryptic hyperplasia (Figures 3A-3C).