Amyloid induced single ischaemic sigmoid-colons ulcer in a patient with rheumatic arthritis

The single ulcer of the colon is a rarity. It occurs usually in the rectum. We have found a single ulcer in the sigma-descendens border of a patient suffering in rheumatic arthritis (RA) for 31 years. 52 years old female has a sero-positive RA from the age of twenty with serious destructions affecting initially her knees and later her little joints. Two years later bilateral synoviectomy of her knees, ten years later bilateral modular knee prothesis, in the thirteenth year right side resection of the head of radius bone, in the eighteenth year left and than right side thigh-bone neck fracture was operated on. In…