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Case Reports
. 1980 Nov-Dec;23(8):570-1.
doi: 10.1007/BF02988999.

Fatal clostridial infection following hemorrhoidal banding

V S O'Hara
Case Reports

Fatal clostridial infection following hemorrhoidal banding

V S O'Hara. Dis Colon Rectum. 1980 Nov-Dec.

Abstract

A case is described in which death followed banding of hemorrhoids. The clinical course was suggestive of overwhelming toxemia due to clostridia.

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