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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Green colon: an unusual appearance at autopsy.

Green colon: an unusual appearance at autopsy.



Authors: Boutilier RG, Murray SK, Walley VM
Division of Anatomical Pathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.


"Following ingestion of the water-soluble dye, it is apparently concentrated in the colon, the site of water reabsorption in the gastrointestinal tract. The concentration in the large bowel wall likely varies, depending on the amount administered. In any circumstance, it appears that the clinical use of this dye has a pathologic correlate at autopsy. "


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