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case_images: Preoperative abdominal contrast-enhanced CT. Abdominal contrast-enhanced CT revealed massive colon cancer with invasion of the terminal ileum (yellow arrow) and bowel obstruction.
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case_images: Abdominal contrast-enhanced CT revealed colon cancer invading the terminal ileum and causing bowel obstruction (Figure 1).
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case_images: Time courses of the coagulation tests. On postoperative day five, the patient received 3 g of ampicillin/sulbactam intravenously every 12 hours due to aspiration pneumonia. After receiving three rounds of antibiotics, the patient developed melena and bleeding from a surgical wound.. APTT: activated partial thromboplastin time; PT-INR: prothrombin time and international normalized ratio
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case_images: A blood test revealed a prothrombin time and international normalized ratio (PT-INR) of 5.47 and an activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) of 54.6 seconds (Figure 2).
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