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A woman complains of frequent watery stool (up to 9-10 times per day) with mucus and blood admixtures, dull pain in the hypogastrium, weight loss of 4 kg within the last year. Objectively: malnutrition, dry skin, low turgor, aphthous stomatitis. The abdomen is soft, the sigmoid colon is spastic and painful on palpation. Occult blood test is positive. Fibrocolonoscopy: edema, hyperemia, mucosal granulation, pseudopolyps, small ulcers with irregular edges. Make the diagnosis:

Answer options

  1. Irritable bowel syndrome
  2. Chronic enterocolitis
  3. Crohn's disease (regional enteritis)
  4. Nonspecific ulcerative colitis
  5. Colon cancer
Correct answer

Nonspecific ulcerative colitis

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