Colitis cystica profunda: literature review and case report

Abstract

Colitis cystica profunda is a rare nonmalignant disease, characterized by an inflammation of mucous coat of intestine and formation of submucous cysts. The clinical picture of this pathology and oncological diseases of colon and rectum is similar. It is very difficult and important to differentiate this disease from colorectal cancer to protect the patient from unjustified mutilating surgery. Nowadays either in Russian and foreign scientific literature there are single reports dedicated to this disease. In our opinion the publication of this clinical case and analysis of scientific literature devoted to this subject is currently important. In this article there is a short review of modern state of problem of diagnostics and treatment of colitis cystica profunda. Also there is an own rare clinical observation of a patient who was diagnosed with colitis cystica profunda.