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Barium enema showing apple core appearance and shouldering (white arrow), suggestive of colon cancer.
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Barium enema showed a long irregular stricture of the distal transverse colon (Figure 1).
Resected colon with adherent small bowel loop (black arrow).
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Subtotal colectomy with excision of the adherent 45 cm jejunal loop was performed and bowel continuity restored with ileosigmoid colostomy (Figure 2).
Periodic acid-Schiff stain showing fungal forms (yellow arrow) surrounded by Splendor-Hoeppli phenomenon in a background of acute suppurative inflammation and necrosis. (PASX40).
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Broad, thin-walled, occasionally septated hyphae, surrounded by dense eosinophilic reaction (Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon) were seen, which suggested the diagnosis of basidiobolomycosis (Figure 3).