A most interesting case out of the textbook.

Patient in the 20s walked into the clinic. Has been referred to me for a colonoscopy.

First thing I noticed was the reddish nodules on the shins of both the legs. The patient says that these has been quite painful. The pain had thougth this was due to mosquito bites or some sort of reaction to insect bites. (Clinically on examination, this was consistent with erythema nodosum)

Further history taking reveals the patient has been having diarrhoea. The patient had also been feeling tired.

Colonoscopy was performed and it showed proctitis as well as distal colitis. Biospsies were taken – histology was initially reported as normal but when I queired it with the pathologist, a second opinion was sought and the consensus opinion was that is was consistent with ulcerative colitis.