2000 Volume 42 Issue 3 Pages 277-281
We describe a patients, 66-year-old woman, with solitary nonspecific colonic ulcer of transverse colon and the ulcer healed without specific therapy. She had painless rectal bleeding. There were no other symptoms. Findings from rectal examination were normal. Laboratory tests revealed normal hemoglobin level, white blood cells and platelet counts. Colonoscopic examination showed a round ulcer with smooth edges located at the antimesentric wall of the transverse colon. Multiple biopsy specimens from the lesion revealed benign ulcer with acute inflammatory infiltrates and no granulomas. She recovered without specific therapy. Barium enema examination and colonoscopic study one month later from the initial endoscopy showed that the regenerating epithelium completely covered the floor of the ulcer. Since then, she had remained well.
