Question 10 / 30:  A 25 year old man has had intermittent diarrhea for the past year. Over the past 3 months

his diarrhea has increased in frequency and he is waking at night to move his bowels.

Lately he has noted blood in the stool with some mucus. He has quite a bit of urgency to

move his bowels and notes that the volume of stool output is quite small. He denies

significant abdominal pain except for some mild left lower quadrant discomfort

associated with a bowel movement. His physical examination is normal. He has no fever.

His serum ASCA (anti-saccharomyces cereversiae antibody) level is undetectable and

pANCA (peri-nuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody) level is elevated.

Which of the following is the most likely colonoscopic finding?

A  Normal rectum
B  Deep ulcers in the colon
C  Normal vascular markings
D  Diffuse and circumferential pinpoint ulcers in the colon
E  Pinpoint ulcers in ileum
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Attribution:  Laurence Scott Bailen, Tamsin Knox, Paul Abourjaily, Fredric D. Gordon,Marshall Kaplan,Andrew G. Plaut. PPY 222 Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology, Spring 2007. (Tufts University OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/47 (Accessed 3 May, 2014). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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