Proctitis
From Ganfyd
Inflammation of the rectum.
Causes
- Inflammatory bowel disease, more commonly ulcerative colitis rather than Crohn's disease
- Radiation proctitis (following therapeutic radiotherapy to pelvic cancers, including the rectum itself)
- Anal fissure
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Chlamydia trachomatis (serovar L1-L3) - same organism as Lymphogranuloma venereum (see [1] for case reports)
- Gonorrhoea
- Syphilis
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